Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dead were trucked out at night-and buried, trucks and all, the same night. The doctors knew the botulism was only a disguise for death. It was the radioactivity of the corpses that brought out the road-building machines to pour ten feet of concrete into the mass grave the power shovels...
...well over a decade, the Yard athletic program has limped along like a nervous ghost, always threatening to sink dejectedly into a nearby grave, and rarely showing signs of purpose or composure. Freshmen have groaned through their regular grind in the gym, and perhaps played a game or two of pickup softball, but there has been no integrated inter-dormitory sports organization. Now, however, negotiations between Yard officials and the Athletic Association seem to promise well-arranged Freshman intramurals in the future...
...Czisch refused to protest the election. "It is no good," he said. "Even if Konrad is removed I would not continue the job. The people have spoken." Charles M. La Follette, former Congressman from Indiana, now Military Governor of Würt-temburg-Baden, ordered an immediate investigation, expressed "grave concern...
Somewhere between these two poles is Francis O'Hara's "The Unquiet Grave," which the Advocate's editors have placed in the unsavory category of "controversial" literature. It is good, but not especially so, and certainly not controversial. The idea of the story, which seems to me exaggeratedly picturesque, is generally hidden behind a style which is floridly poetic. Perhaps this concealment is a good thing, for the style is definitely the strong point of the piece...
Christian Conscience. But a Christian at war must look sharply and often to his conscience. "The tendency of a conflict to change its character as it proceeds, and of a nation at war to deteriorate progressively in outlook and conduct, must always be of grave concern to Christians, on account of the ethical dilemmas that arise when what began as a 'just' war comes to assume a more dubious countenance . . . We would therefore emphasize the duty that is laid upon Christians of refusing to participate in any act of war which they are morally certain is wrong...