Word: grave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baarle's chief occupation, naturally, is smuggling. Even legitimate businessmen can prosper by setting up their establishments on both sides of the border and operating in whichever country happens to offer the more favorable price levels and the lower taxes. "From the cradle to the grave," says Dutch Burgomaster Franciscus de Grauw of Baarle-Nassau, "our actions violate the law." "But," adds his Belgian colleague, Burgomaster Jan Loots of Baarle-Hertog, "we feel 100% delighted with the situation...
...most of the tourists who visit Cuzco, has started a search to find the missing statue. Panagra reasons that if the foundry sent Powhatan to Peru, it may have sent Atahuallpa to some U.S. town square. He should be easy to spot. He is robust, with short-cropped hair, grave manner, handsome face, fierce eyes. He wears an elaborate band around his forehead, and a collar of large emeralds...
Neither side, Munoz held, will be so foolish as to risk imposing its ideological or technological methods on the other in face of the grave dangers involved. "The deepest religious differences have accommodated themselves to coexistence," in the past, he said...
Closing his lecture, Munoz pressed for a "revolution of deepening expectations" where reliance on the freedom of man's intelligence would dispel the "grave stultifying nationalism and power-politics...
...Vatican decree did not specifically mention excommunication, though it referred to the 1949 decree. Except in the most flagrant cases, offenders will be guilty only of grave sin against the church. But the decree is binding on Catholics everywhere, and it produced a strong reaction in Italy. Right-wingers were delighted ("A helpful clarification." purred one news agency), and left-wingers, who had welcomed the election of Cardinal Roncalli as a "liberal" Pope, were dismayed. Commented Rome's fellow-traveling newspaper Paese Sera: "We thought Pope John was a Pope of new coinage, but now he has raised...