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...authorized flying time 20%, a grievous blow to the precision training of combat crews...
...Three Flattops. But the submariners' most grievous worry is that the Navy has fallen under the control of air-minded admirals. The assistant chief of naval operations for underseas warfare is a naval aviator, Rear Admiral Frank Akers, who has never seen submarine service. Submariners complain that the air-minded high command has virtually shut off funds for submarine construction in order to find money for three new supercarriers...
United Nations delegates bowed their heads in one minute's silence and Soviet Delegate Andrei Vishinsky mourned "the most grievous loss ... for all human beings." Vishinsky, close to tears, said Stalin's name will be "immortal," and over the protests of some New Yorkers, the U.N. flag was lowered to half-mast...
While the Begum reposed on a couch in the courtroom, the jury heard ten days of testimony blaming her for Bano's death. But last week the jurors, in 70 minutes, found the Begum guilty only of "causing grievous hurt." Her lawyer rose and made a further plea: Her Highness had already suffered grievously in mind, body and money; she should get some consideration from the court. The judge agreed. He fined the Begum 6,000 rupees ($1,830), and sentenced her to imprisonment "until the court rises." With that, the court rose, and the Begum was free. Muttering...
...books were really implicit defenses of his own. Throughout his life he kept up a running journalistic battle in behalf of realism, by which he meant his idea that the American village could be "as inquisitorial as an army barracks'' and the American businessman "the most grievous victim of his own militant dullness." At the same time, Lewis kept firing away at his literary enemies: the "genteel philosophy" personified in William Dean Howells, a writer with "the code of a pious old maid whose greatest delight was to have tea at the vicarage"; literary commercialism, which bent...