Word: grave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convoying. They called our hand when they shelled the beach and got that LSM. The Chicoms' guns can and will blast anything on the beach until they are taken out. We could take them out and so could the Nationalists. But the decision to do so is a grave one and not for military...
...Britons of all stripes were united in deploring Randolph's blurt. "A grave indiscretion," cried the Daily Herald in a front-page editorial. "It is perhaps apt to recall," said the Star, "that Mr. Randolph Churchill once wrote that no one was ever given corporal punishment in the Churchill home . . . Mr. Macmillan may be excused for regarding that as a major sin of omission, for Randolph has been a naughty boy . . . Bend over, Randolph...
...synonym for the nadir of collegiate football; and the Class of 1925, which remembered better days, was to give $35,000 to the College for the frank purpose of athletic scholarships. With this gesture amateur football, which had known Harvard as a cradle, now looked down into its open grave...
...shall descend into my grave. And on the third day rise again...
...Failure. Zhivago's tortuous path takes him from boyhood at his mother's grave through the lurid landscape of war and revolution. An utterly credible and pitiable man. he is seen first as a student whose gift for happiness makes him feel lost among the fanatical miseries of Russian revolutionary youth. All are anarchists, nihilists. pro-Bolsheviks: young Zhivago is merely human, and he remains stubbornly human as he moves through marriage, friendships, his career as a physician, front-line service in World War I. In the vast plains of Russia, he seeks to shelter his family from...