Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arnold, "was immediately followed . . . by an outbreak of funeral orations over anti-trust enforcement." But last week No. 1 Trustbuster Arnold gave the Sherman Act the liveliest week of its liveliest year. As the funeral orations grew louder and more insistent, he danced the aging law away from its grave, through the tombstones, almost out the cemetery gate...
...Capital. But he said: "The question is nothing less than whether the most essential rights of personal liberty will be surrendered, and despotism embraced in its worst form. . . . The people have too fresh and strong a feeling of the blessings of civil liberty. . . . Similar pretenses, they know, are the grave in which the liberties of other nations have been buried. . . ." Messrs, Wheeler, Clark, Vandenberg, Taft, Norris did their best to echo him last week...
Into their handsome board room on the 26th floor of Manhattan's spike-topped Chrysler Building last week strode 15 grave directors of $661,067,033 Texas Corp. Eleven of them were there to debate the fate of their $100,000-a-year chairman - hardheaded Torkild Rieber, Norwegian-born onetime tanker master. Three, officers of the company, had come to listen. In the witness chair was Oilman Rieber. Out side, in the anteroom, were war and Adolf Hitler...
...wife, sister's son's wife, wife's brother's daughter, wife's sister's daughter. If the report is accepted, the Church of England will once more be in line with civil law. The commission still urged "grave biological and some other objections to marriage between first cousins." quoted famed Biometrist J. B. S. Haldane, who testified that if first-cousin marriages were prohibited, England would have fewer mental defectives, deaf-mutes, still-born children...
Scarcely had Heywood Broun's genial, untidy bulk been laid in its grave last winter when the American Newspaper Guild, which he had founded, burst into a bedlam of argument and dissension, like a roomful of children whose teacher has departed. Charges that the Guild was ruled by a handful of Communists and fellow travelers came to a head last month at the Guild convention in Memphis (TIME, July 22) when rebellious Guildsmen tried in vain to install a new regime...