Word: grave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before publicly mentioning Panama, then limited himself to a relatively mild attack: "Display some reason, gentlemen. Get out before it is too late, before you are chucked out." What seemed to aggravate Khrushchev far more was the recent CIA report that Russia itself was in the throes of a grave economic crisis. In reply to that, he angrily shouted a new version of his famed "We'll bury you" crack: "You will vanish as though the earth had swallowed you before you see our economy failing...
...widow had a huge boulder set near his grave. On it, a brass plaque is inscribed with the signature that finished his works. His top price while alive, $10,000, soared ten times higher. Imitators flooded the art market with works that drooled more like a hungry walrus than like Pollock's. Few ever managed like Pollock to puncture what his favorite author Herman Melville called the "pasteboard mask" of visible reality, to pierce beyond the surface into the reasoning soul of men's minds...
...Doty Committee on General Education issues a statement reading, "We are deadlocked, no report in sight," and appeals to the Harvard Council on Undergraduate Affairs for help. The chairman of the HCUA agrees to arbitrate, commenting, "This is a grave responsibility...
...comrades. Five others were captured. At first, Tavárez Justo's death was called a suicide, but later the government said that he had been shot to death in a gunfight with the soldiers. All 15, said the communique, were buried on the spot in a common grave...
...dwindled, so did Astor's energies. He correctly judged in the 1830s that the boom was over (in London he had encountered "hats of silk in place of beaver"), and he retired in ill health from the business. "All your wealth will do you no good in your grave," he wrote piously to a friend. And piously in 1848 he went to his grave...