Word: grave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These were grave charges. But, Dodd insisted, his only aim in circulating the U.N. report to the Senate, was to protect the new regime in Saigon against "a possible recrudescence of the 'Buddhist' agitation, and protect Congress and the American public against a repetition of the one-sided and misleading reporting that unfortunately characterized the recent Buddhist crisis...
...were a carillon's keyboard or a finely tuned set of 88 drums. The array of sounds he divines from his Baldwin grand are beyond the reach of academic pianists; he caresses a note with the tremble of a bejeweled finger, then stomps it into its grave with a crash of elbow and forearm aimed with astonishing accuracy at a chromatic tone cluster an octave long...
...Republican Leader Everett Dirksen. Said he: "I appeal to the distinguished minority leader, whose patriotism has always taken precedence over his partisanship, to join with me-and I know he will-in finding the Senate's best possible contribution at this time to the resolution of this grave national issue." The South's top tactician, Georgia Democrat Richard Russell, was also wooing Dirksen with words of praise...
...TIME has become so melodramatic! Your story of Marina Oswald's life made me feel like the "constant weader" who "fwowed up" in Dorothy Parker's remark. The plastic roses on Oswald's grave were just too much...
Marina and Marguerite Oswald are likely to meet hereafter only by chance along the blacktopped road that winds far to the back of Rose Hill Cemetery. Both women visit Lee Oswald's grave once or twice a week. It is marked with a small cross cut into a simple granite plaque, which carries the man's name and the dates of his first and last days on earth. The bare cedars quake on wintry, windy Texas days, and the grass is brown and forlorn. Here and there a leaf flutters and a sudden swarm of starlings lights...