Word: grave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sometimes the unknown is less feared than the known, and there is grave doubt that the Air Force has found the answer to its problem. Men can be given spiritual stamina through spiritual training; they can achieve physical stamina through physical training. There is no evidence that they can become immune to torture by small doses of torture...
...months a year. Drawing on his experiences as onetime aw professor at the University of Florence, La Pira rummaged among old ar-:hives, finally found what he wanted: a aw of the Kingdom of Italy, passed in 1865, which empowered Italian mayors to requisition private buildings in grave emergencies...
Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave...
...this grave lies a man once hailed as a great writer, but currently out of fashion. Buried beside him is a woman who was hardly thought of as a writer at all, but who may well burst forth posthumously with a bestseller. Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne Stevenson has been known -if at all-as a sort of two-dimensional adjunct to her great husband Robert Louis Stevenson. Now, all at once, Fanny is three-dimensional. Anthologist-Author Charles Neider, aided by infra-red and ultraviolet light, but hindered by often almost illegible handwriting, has published Fanny's diary...
...free transportation to Israel, but last week the Jewish Agency's Immigration Committee set the country's "absorptive capacity" for this year at 45,000, and doubted that it could scrape together enough money to transport even that many. Israel cannot absorb large numbers of newcomers without grave risk to its burdened economy. No longer are there abandoned Arab villages to be filled, no longer is there fertile land, once worked by the Arabs, to be brought to plow; there remain only the harsh lands of the desert and the stony hills of Galilee. Last week Premier Moshe...