Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Keats's Grave...
...When the Nazis were driven from Rome three weeks ago, it is probable that few among the liberating forces realized that they had liberated, among other things, the grave of John Keats" [TIME, June...
...course of one half-hour's brooding over his grave, situated in a less frequented portion of the city, I saw two American enlisted men, one American Red Cross worker, two plaid-skirted Scottish lieutenants and two Italian girls come to pay their respects...
Last week His Imperial Highness, Haile Selassie, King of Kings and Lion of Judah, celebrated his 52nd birthday and faced a grave educational problem. Ethiopian illiteracy is rampant. While his country was under the Italian heel, every educated Ethiopian that could be found was systematically exterminated. For six years not an Ethiopian child was allowed to go to school...
...teapot. Last week they were thicker than ever. China's ragged army of rifleman and grenade-throwers had fought a critical campaign under appalling hardships (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). Washington gossips croaked the news that Vice President Henry Wallace brought Franklin Roosevelt from Chungking: China's situation is grave, even desperate. And last week neutral Russia, breaking its long reticence about the Sino-Japanese war, treated its exhausted neighbor to a stroke of the bear...