Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough to make Richard Wagner turn in his grave. On the great stage of the roofless, littered Cologne Opera House a skinny little doughboy, shrouded in the pretentious livery of Siegfried, sang "Saint Louis Woman . . ." to a buxom, bearded, Brünnhilde. A G.I. strode past, sporting a foot-high Cossack hat of white fur. Romeo, a Matterhorn of meat and muscle, was there, and Juliet, too, her black wig on backwards. One battle-grimed dough-foot had abandoned his bazooka for a slide trombone. Seven pianos were going at once...
...headlines again, this time with his social-security plan, or, as he exuberantly dubbed it, his "prosperity and happiness program" (TIME, Oct. 9). Famed Sir William Beveridge, stepfather of the plan, gave it his blessing, even thought it an improvement on his own ''cradle-to-grave" proposal...
...18th Century there was a flourishing body-snatching industry in England and America. At standard prices (which in England rose gradually from ?2 to ?14) these businessmen guaranteed to deliver to a medical school any given body, sometimes snatching a corpse almost from under its mourners' noses. From grave-robbing, dealers in cadavers took to replenishing their supplies by murder. This form of service to medical science was called Burking, after an enterprising Scot who invented it. He was eventually caught, hanged and himself dissected...
...might of arms had wrought in Cologne. No one, except the overly sentimental, shed tears. But for the first time the certain chaos of postwar Germany was made graphic. Everyone knew now that, no matter when the war in Europe ends, its end would not bring a cessation of grave problems. And there was still the stern prospect of the Pacific...
Last week all this ill feeling culminated in a grave work stoppage-a noisy, angry row which spread into thirteen Detroit war plants, sent over 35,000 Detroit workers into the streets...