Word: grave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long before daylight next morning, the Sultan drove to the holy city of Fez to kneel toward the rising sun, and to pray on a rug beside the grave of his mother, who had died of grief for her son ten days after his removal from the throne...
...power of rationalism to destroy, brought out by Hurkan and Tillich, has awakened in the editors grave doubts about intellectual activity and the function of the University. They claim the University has no real commitment "to the demands of the creative act" and that by having no particular point of view, or rather by allowing so many, what is created becomes no more important than what destroys it. Thus i.e. is not merely an attempt to formulate another point of view or to criticize, but an attempt towards an integrated artistic and scientific approach to the "new reality" created...
...Record. Behind the Unknown Soldier and his solitary guard lay the gently rolling countryside of northern Virginia and the 408 carefully tended acres of Arlington National Cemetery. In the cemetery lie the remains of 87,000, most of them military men and women, and on the headstones of their graves is carved a solemn record of history. The names themselves ring with historic significance : William Howard Taft, the only President to exercise his prerogative as Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces and select Arlington as his burial site; Admiral Robert (North Pole) Peary; Robert Todd Lincoln, James Garfield...
Therefore, he stated, the British made a grave mistake in evacuating their forces from the Canal, the link between the Mediterranean and the East...
...French Puppet Bao Dai, and shocked by the sudden defection of El Glaoui, France's oldest Moroccan ally. Yet none of these reverses vexed the touchy Deputies as much as Edgar Faure's surprise proposal (TIME, Oct. 31) for snap Assembly elections to be held before Christmas. "Grave national responsibilities" confronting the country early next year, Faure had said, required that the Assembly renew its mandate, which otherwise would not expire until June. Of course, the scheme might just possibly keep nimble Edgar Faure atop the political heap a while longer...