Word: grave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very small and her hair, eyes, and skin though naturally of different shades, were all muddy. She seldom sat--she perched on things--and liked to cock her head a little to one side. Nora had a theory that once when Edge opened an antique grave, Tip ran out of it, and Margot Innes always spoke of her as the gnome, pronouncing all the letters. She once told me that she did not think that any literature of twenty years ago would live, because it had no psychiatry in it. They lived in a pleasant old three-story house...
...want two rectangular tables, with the U.S. and South Viet Nam seated at one, and North Viet Nam and the N.L.F. at the other, to prevent the guerrillas from getting a whole side of a table to themselves. It might have seemed absurd, but in the past, conferences on grave issues have foundered over such trivial "modalities" (see box). And as Hanoi Spokesman Xuan Thuy noted, "Whether it is important or not, it must be resolved. You cannot sit down at a conference without a table...
...Robert F. Kennedy's 43rd birthday, his brother Ted brought his own and the slain Senator's family to pray and leave flowers. Two days later, on the fifth anniversary of John F. Kennedy's death in Dallas, the family returned to visit the flame-lit grave a little farther up the hill. In New York, Mrs. Aristotle Onassis took John and Caroline Kennedy to a special Mass for their father-one of many such memorial services across the country...
...final communiqué, they issued a double-edged warning that 1) they were "wholly determined to defend the members of the alliance against any armed attack," and 2) "Any Soviet intervention directly or indirectly affecting the situation in Europe or in the Mediterranean would create an international crisis with grave consequences...
...them should Russia push into a "grey area" country-partial or full mobilization, activation of reserve units, immediate airlifting of additional U.S. troops to Western Europe, full-alert status for strike aircraft and for troops on the frontiers of the Communist world. Such moves would be coupled with a grave new warning to Moscow, and no doubt a call on the White House-Kremlin hot line...