Word: grave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...piano everywhere and at the slightest provocation any hour of the day or night. He insisted on playing the whole of his Leningrad program at a rehearsal several hours before the evening concert for the benefit of conservatory students unable to buy tickets. When he visited Tchaikovsky's grave in Leningrad, he delighted his guides by taking some Russian earth back with him, plans to use it to plant a Russian lilac cutting at Rachmaninoff's grave near Valhalla in New York's Westchester County...
...friendly patron, he buckled down to a period of remorseless study and composition. By 22 he had won his post as Busseto organist over violent opposition and married his childhood sweetheart, daughter of his patron. Their two children died in infancy, and wife Margherita followed them to the grave after only four years of marriage and just before her husband's first big success, the opera Nabucco...
Bursting with the pride of nationhood, some 5,000 Israelis kindled the first festive beacon at dusk beside the Judean hilltop grave of Theodor Herzl, founder of Zionism. Then, after a ten-gun salute boomed off Jordan's echoing hills (all heavily reinforced with Arab soldiery), 5,000 crack Israeli warriors took pride of martial place by parading through the City of David with gleaming tanks, guns and armored vehicles, in defiance of the armistice clause that prohibits any large number of troops and weapons within six miles of the Jordanian frontier...
...Socialist government of Premier Tage Erlander, whose party has held power alone or as masters of a coalition almost uninterruptedly since 1932, fell by an adverse vote in the Swedish lower chamber. At issue was expansion of Sweden's welfare state, which already provides more cradle-to-grave benefits than any other European nation. Following his defeat, Erlander asked King Gustaf VI Adolf to dissolve Parliament...
...some of "our generation," silent or unsilent, choose to investigate themselves, that is their choice; but they should not inflict on the world the impression that all young people have found ghastly the prospects of every day life. Perhaps we have sung one too many hosannas over the grave of Dr. Freud...