Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...killed in an aeroplane test. It transpires that nearly all these people had apotheosized him as lover or as hero. As a false god he is colossal. After his death they weave in and out of their routine of like automatons, for the carried with him to his grave all dreams of passion satisfied or triumphant youth. Then, bit by bit, information drifts in of his indecencies, his commonness, and his betrayal of them...
...Problem. While the people sang, General Simovitch worked. Whether Yugoslavia could continue to exist as one nation was in doubt, and that was a risk the tall, grave-eyed General took when he staged his coup. To be Foreign Minister of his Government he picked an elder statesman who had been 17 years out of politics, 65-year-old Momtchilo Nintchitch...
Minister of Agriculture Dr. James Ryan announced a serious outbreak of foot-&-mouth disease in Eire, said there is grave danger that the disease may become an epidemic. Promptly banned by Eire's Government were all horse races and horse shows, dog races, hunts and polo matches, to keep the disease from spreading. Public horse sales were stopped in 16 counties...
Another wreath belonged on the grave of F. Donald Coster. For although he milked McKesson of almost $3,000.000, Mr. Coster, a dynamic and farseeing businessman as well as a crook, had gathered for the purpose a herd of very sturdy cows. Less than 5% of McKesson business comes from its own branded drugs, vulnerable to the scandalous publicity. Most of the rest is a distributing business, which wholesales some 48,000 different items, from alarm clocks to Coca-Cola syrup, to some 30,000 independent drugstores throughout...
Last week in the Blue Ridge foothills at Marion, Va., a coffin was lowered into a grave. In it was the burly body and curious brain of Sherwood Anderson, paint manufacturer, ad writer, editor, short-story teller, novelist, poet, American. The grave had had to wait more than two weeks. Anderson died at Colon, Panama...