Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene, a black and white Jeep pulled up to the cemetery, and out stepped the two victims. They were tied tightly to two pine stakes. "Traditional proceedings were scrupulously respected," announced Le Matin, a government newspaper. "There were three volleys of Springfields, and submachine guns, and three coups de grace." After which, the crowd was marched to the National Palace, where Duvalier, acceding to its "solicitations," appeared on the balcony "to smile and wave...
...wordly visionaries, but practical men of business. The Virginia Company hankered after precious metals, a Northwest Passage, and raw materials with which to produce "all the commodities of Europe, Africa and Asia, and to supplye the wantes of all our decayed trades." Bradford's "spirite of God and his grace" were conceits foreign to the minds of these entrepreneurs. In return for their investment they wanted earthly dividends of the sort envisioned by Michael Drayton in his "Ode to the Virginia Voyage...
...beat us. But we (bang) are a better team than they are. We're going out there (bang) and prove it (BANG)!" Then, along with the rest of the Fighting Irish, Coach Parseghian, a French-Armenian Protestant, sank to his knees and bowed his head. "Hail Mary, full of grace...
...articles that still seem good, Benjamin Bradlee's essay "That Special Grace" has been published by itself as a book. It is perhaps the best of several reminiscences by men who knew Kennedy both as reporters and as friends. Of the "straight reporting" written just after the assassination, the two pieces by Mary McGrory of the Washington Star seem much the best in the Salinger-Vanocur collection...
...list remains the same from year to year, unless we can somehow "build a case" against one of the charities. No charity is being recommended because it was recommended last year. The fact that ASFC is not being recommended this year does not mean it has somehow fallen from grace--we certainly recognize the value of the program ASFC is conducting, and will be pleased to have Harvard and Radcliffe students contribute to it again this year...