Word: grave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Baltimore courtroom, meanwhile, Judge Hoffman, Spiro Agnew, now a simple citizen whose appearance before the bar of justice carried no grave constitutional portents or precedents, and the Attorney General were enacting the script that they had so carefully crafted. The Government said that Agnew had "willfully and knowingly" evaded $9,551.47 in federal taxes on $29,500 in undeclared income. Agnew did not contest the charge, pleading nolo contendere, which Judge Hoffman took pains to point out was equivalent to a guilty plea...
Moshell wisely dispensed with conducting the slow movement which had original but tasteful ornamentation. Once the string orchestra caught up with the last movement tempo, the piece finished solidly. The overall effect was a unified one, despite the sometimes grave difficulties with the harpsichord...
Except for the grave mistake involved in reporting Barba's death, the media's largest error in covering these events was its lack of discretion. The newspaper headlines went far beyond merely reporting the events. Instead of using neutral words such as "set afire" in headlines, the papers went to sensational, emotion-packed words like "torched...
News reporters can only be expected to react to events with human reactions. Yet they face a very grave responsibility when they must interpret daily events...
...testy impression left by those remarks is not quite the one that the Hungarian-born Fellner, who arrived in the U.S. in 1939, made on his colleagues at Yale, where he taught for 21 years before retiring in June. They remember him as a scholar of grave old-world courtesy who developed a surprising facility as an amateur bartender (he is one of the few people left who knows how to mix a sidecar). He has, however, been acquiring a reputation as a hard-liner on inflation and as a holder of what Nixon wryly described as "rather, shall...