Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your article . . . perpetrates a grave injustice to the memory of a forthright and honest...
...ever justified? Yes, says the commission, when it is undertaken: 1) to redress a grave injury committed by another state; 2) to defend one's country against attack; 3) to help a belligerent "whose cause . . . [one] believes to be just." But, the report adds, war must be waged with a right intention-"the establishment of peace founded in justice...
...time of Ching Ming, the Pure Brightness Festival. Throughout the land the Chinese people, obeying ancient precepts, dutifully swept and tidied the graves of their ancestors. At the foot of a pine-dotted mountain in remote Chungpu, Shensi province, such a grave was swept. This was the tradition-hallowed tomb of the greatest ancestor of all, Huang Ti (Yellow Emperor), legendary Father of the Chinese race...
...Paris, Sacha Guitry, 63, had a slight collision. A court assessed the famed Jack-of-all-theatrics and a friend 700,000 francs (about $2,300) for causing "grave prejudice" to the Goncourt Academy. Each year the academy hands some novelist a Goncourt Prize, but Guitry and the academy have been on the outs. So this year Guitry awarded his own "Goncourt Prize" to a novel of his own choice. The book was labeled Prix Goncourt in big letters, and Le Goncourt Hors de Goncourt in little ones...
...resistance, the foundation of the republic has been greatly strengthened. The idea of democracy has become a popular sentiment. In these circumstances our party does not need to keep the post and honor of the presidency. . . . We can entrust to a person outside the party the grave responsibility of making the constitution a living thing. Only in this manner shall we rally the support of the people...