Word: grievously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more protracted the discussions the better. ''If necessary," said Peking Radio last week. "we will talk for five or even ten years.'' Like some U.S. officials, the commissars of Peking saw Quemoy as ''another Dienbienphu"-a position which could be squeezed off with grievous loss of Western prestige and military manpower, but which the West could not rescue without using disproportionate force. But the Communists would be making a grievous mistake if they did not also recognize the difference between Dienbienphu and Quemoy: at Dienbienphu U.S. prestige was not directly at stake; at Quemoy...
...pushing the military too far, the Peronistas stopped talking tough. Underground Leader Guillermo Kelly called newsmen to a secret rendezvous and said he would go along with Frondizi's program "for the good of democracy." For a while at least, Frondizi might be able to concentrate on the grievous economic problems of his fertile but bankrupt country...
...packed with vivid descriptions of how life is lived in one of the big cities of the world; it would be providential if many people in our own big cities read it, and it would bring home to them how fortunate we are in this country-no matter how grievous the problems of our large cities seem...
Already the U.S.S.R., by sacrificing "the civilian sector" of its economy, had passed the U.S. in the quantity and quality of many high-priority weapons. The Russian atomic stockpile, long smaller and less diversified than the U.S.'s, is now growing to the point where Communism can inflict grievous damage. The U.S.S.R. has a force of modern jet bombers with electronic defenses, a fleet of 4OO-plus submarines, even an arsenal of operational medium-range ballistic missiles with which the Communists can now attack targets in Japan, Formosa, and most of Western Europe (but the U.S.S.R.'s intercontinental...
...fact, Nasser had with his own hand struck a grievous blow at his prospects of achieving leadership of Afro-Asia's restive peoples. For by giving Egyptian backing to the permanent Afro-Asian Council, he had in effect gone into partnership with Russia in a campaign to undermine Western influence in Africa. And in a partnership between Egypt and Russia, even self-confident Gamal Abdel Nasser could scarcely doubt which partner would call the tune...