Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flush Toilets & Farms. The inch-by-inch family farming here produces among the highest per-acre yields in the world, or Japan would long since have starved. There have been grave postwar shortages: fertilizers and farm supplies. Nitrates are now so scarce that human manure provides half the nitrogen used on farms. If flush toilets were installed throughout Japan, its agriculture would be wrecked overnight...
...charges against her were grave: that she had violated state laws, and that she was indifferent to wide-spread immorality among the inmates. But the outrageous attacks upon Dr. Van Waters for many months before McDowell dismissed her had convinced many that not only the charges themselves but the motives behind them were suspect. These attacks were carried out through the agency of two Boston newspapers, and the two men who had been investigating the Reformatory last year were mysteriously tied up with the papers. One "prober" was McDowell's deputy, Frank Dwyer. The other was State Senator Michael LoPresti...
...Council has made a grave mistake in considering this issue in terms of past demands, not present and future exigencies," Miss Hall asserted. It has failed to recognize "the clear distinction between political and other clubs," she added, urging reconsideration of the problem...
Three hours later, Sanchez was carried into Toluca hospital. Government police fanned out over the hills looking for Proctor. Only after getting tough with the farmers were they led to a mountain grave. There they found the battered body of Roberto Proctor. He was the ninth official (and second American) to die at the hands of superstitious Mexican farmers fearful that anti-aftosa teams came to do them harm instead of good...
...prison, the gang's trigger man catches up with him. This leads to the most gruesome of the movie's assortment of gruesome scenes: Scott and the kindhearted girl (Dorothy Malone) who has hidden him are parked on a lonely roadside while a gangster cheerfully digs a grave to dump them in. A gentler touch: Scott shoving a gunman over the edge of a building. Flaxy Martin is not the wickedest of Warner's gangster sagas, but its leading lady sets some kind of a record for doing dirt to her men. If she is no better...