Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adolf Hitler renamed Luftwaffe Squadron 3 the Udet Squadron and ordered a state funeral. Reich Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Göring delivered the eulogy, then waddled after the flag-draped gun carriage on the mile-long march through silent, crowded streets to the cemetery. They buried him near the grave of Baron Manfred von Richthofen...
...round, he runs his estate on E.S.T. nevertheless. When his wife Amie, a capable portrait painter, died two years ago, the Colonel gave her a military funeral, with her favorite saddle horse carrying her boots, reversed, three volleys by a squad from Fort Sheridan and taps sounded over her grave...
Backward: Mutual Broadcasting System's grave Analyst Raymond Gram Swing, in an Armistice Day homily at the sick world's bedside, recalled a technical point: "It is not historically true that the issue [of accepting responsibility for world peace] ever was presented to the American nation and that the responsibility was rejected. Twenty years ago Americans through the two major parties were committed either to the League or to a society of nations. . . . Then President Harding, after his election, said that the vote had been a plebiscite against joining...
...risk insurance for practically all U.S. foreign trade, the nine men set the rates. At their last meeting last week (see cut) they pondered two grave questions: 1) does the recent course of the Battle of the Atlantic (see chart, p. 26) warrant lower rates on foreign-flag cargoes?; 2) will arming U.S. vessels provoke more attacks on them? To the first question, the answer was yes. This week the committee announced a 25% reduction in rates on transatlantic cargoes (from 10% of the value to 7½%).To the second question the answer was no -for the present. Beforeupping...
That contract (which, incidentally, I understand has not been signed by President Conant or either of the present heads of Yale and Princeton) was an effort by the Big Three to remove the grave over-emphasis that was being put on college football at the time...