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...roof were in place; Wadsworth and the workmen spread a bouquet, gave thanks that "no life was lost, nor person hurt," and concluded with the 127th Psalm. The thousand pounds was gone, however, and the Corporation made a more candid appeal to the legislature, emphasizing the President's grievous state. He had spread his family among different homes and his belongings among different barns, and despite his exalted post had lived this way for a year. The General Court was unimpressed...
...excellent future prospects: the nation's urban unemployment is increasing by 500,000 a year; 15 million families are unable to make a decent living upon India's arid land. India's current rate of industrial investment is considered more than 85% behind India's grievous need...
...most flagrant violation of justice." The British government was shocked out of its usual line of "Let's not be beastly to the Chinese Reds"; the Foreign Office called the imprisonment of the 13 Americans "outrageous" and promised to "do all in our power to mitigate this great, grievous wrong." Senator William F. Knowland called for "a tight naval blockade of the entire China coast." Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., said the sentences were "a new act of barbarism" which "adds still another item to the long list of reasons why the unspeakable gang...
World War II has many grievous memories, but for those who ever did a tour on the "Rock" (persistently ignored by USO troupes and widely ballyhooed "name" entertainers), no fonder memories exist than those regarding that fabulous creature, Nature's caricature of humanity: the goony bird...
Fourthly, it is to be hoped that the Republican Party and conservative opinion in America will finally have the intelligence to admit their grievous error of winking while civil liberty, supposedly the traditional bastion of conservatives, was being destroyed. Not since Senator Vandeburg converted to realism has America had a responsible conservative spokesman. Even the late Senator Vandeburg converted to realism has America had a responsible conservative spokesman. Even the late Senator Taft was not averse to praising Senator McCarthy. No historical revisionism or sentiment for the departed can erase this fact. Yet there are many Republicans who currently...