Word: grave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marilyn's Dead." Sam's brother, Dr. Stephen Sheppard, was the first defense witness. He related that at a family party on July 2, two days before the murder, Sam and Marilyn Sheppard had talked about the baby they expected. As he spoke, Sam Sheppard, usually grave and composed, bowed his head and sobbed...
Lying north of Australia, New Guinea, an island the size of Scandinavia, is populated by an unknown number of fuzzy-haired tribesmen who have no idea of government. The eastern half of New Guinea is ruled by Australia; who should rule the western half was in grave dispute last week. West New Guinea, a strategic prize, may also become economically important when oil and mineral discoveries are properly developed...
...grave problems of financial aid should arise from rent equalization. The financial Aid center, which already tries to adjust students' resources to tuition and board charges, would merely include a flat room rent in its formulas. A few students who do not now require financial aid would undoubtedly have to request it under a fixed room rent system. But the simplicity of a single charge for all University expenses should outweigh any extra burden placed on the Financial Aid Office...
...destruction that has been caused by "unreasonable men" throughout history. He listed as bad influences such men as Nietszche and Hitler and then went on to Senator McCarthy because, he explained, "for an Englishman to speak in America without mentioning McCarthy would be like presenting 'Hamlet' without a grave-digger...
...world's generals and statesmen, the radioactive "fallout" from nuclear explosions is a grave worry for the future. For scientists who date ancient objects by Carbon 14. it is already a serious nuisance and threatens to get worse. Southwestern laboratories near the Nevada atom-bomb testing ground have found it impossible to use Carbon 14; there is too much competing radioactivity in their vicinity. Even on the Eastern seaboard, Carbon 14 work at the University of Pennsylvania has often been stopped by a radioactive cloud drifting slowly overhead. The "background radiation" gets so strong that the voice of Carbon...