Word: graving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...racial issue here in America is an involved and grave one-but one which is soluble and feasible. We have our despots and the vindictive, but we also have far more of the brave, just and good. There is hope for solution and an amicable and happy one here, with sympathy and understanding to spare for those in other countries where the despotic outnumber the just...
...week to consider the most vital aspects of U.S. defense. First to speak at the regular meeting of the National Security Council was the youngest man at the table. Placing his tan leather briefcase beside his chair, Vice President Richard Nixon leaned forward and opened the meeting in a grave, clear voice: "Gentlemen, as we all know, it is the custom of the Cabinet to open with a silent prayer. While this has not been the practice of the Security Council, may I propose a moment of silent prayer of thanksgiving for the marvelous record of recovery the President...
Troublemakers. It was not Harding who fired first, however, but Greek Orthodox Archbishop Myriarthefs Makarios, spiritual leader of the island's 410,000 Greek Cypriots and temporal leader of the enosis movement. Makarios ordered a "systematic campaign of passive resistance aimed at achieving national freedom." Besides the grave, soft-spoken archbishop and his church are two other groups more openly committed to violence in support of enosis - an underground terrorist gang called E.O.K.A. and the Cyprus Communist Party, whose 18,000-member Pancypriot Labor Federation has a hammer lock on the island's labor force, and whose membership...
...third. He leaps to the phone-only to hear his wife cry out that Bogart has got the boy, who had chosen that moment for an attempt to sneak out the window and run for help. Worst of all, the rubbish man starts snooping around-and finds his own grave...
...examine the breach. U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles sent an urgent message to the Greek and Turkish Premiers: "The partnership of Greece and Turkey constitutes a strong bulwark of the free world in a critical area. If that bulwark should be materially weakened, the consequences would be grave indeed...