Word: grave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Back in Washington, Kissinger found his negotiations overshadowed by a problem of grave personal concern. The disclosure that he had acquiesced in the 1969 bugging of some of his own aides had dragged his name into the widening Watergate mess and threatened to undermine both his credibility and his ability to continue in his post...
...does the disease. Despite the med ical seminars and discussions about black identity, Africa, and medicine to help the poor, A Warm December is no angry social document. It is very much in the old tradition of star-crossed Ruritanian romance, with overtones of Love Story. Poitier deals with grave matters, but in such a cushy way that he makes them all seem frivolous...
...GLEE that talk of impeaching President Nixon excites in people, impeachment remains a serious business. The unsuccessful attempt to remove Andrew Johnson from office in 1868 had such grave consequences for American political life in the last half of the 19th century that the use of impeachment to redress presidential misconduct fell into general disrepute. Presidential impeachment became so moot a point during the 100 years after the Johnson affair that scholars failed to give the subject any extensive consideration...
...Then there was acceptance. You get to the point when you can say of his life, and your life with him, 'Well, it was all rounded out.' " She stopped the car for a moment at the little walled cemetery where a wreath of Texas evergreens marked the grave of Lyndon Johnson and a circle of tourists stood in quiet respect. Craning to see the license plates of their cars in the parking area, she noted with pleasure, "California . . . Pennsylvania . . . Michigan." Then she drove on, humming a cheerful tune...
...Rhodesia has often been stated-but never quite so bitingly as it was last week when tiny Sierra Leone announced its first list of national awards and honors. A spokesman for President Siaka Stevens, recalling that the country's 19th century nickname was "the white man's grave" because of Sierra Leone's hordes of malaria-bearing mosquitos, said that among the honors would be a Medal of the Mosquito, for conspicuous gallantry. Why? Because the vicious little pests prevented white men from permanently settling in the area and thus forestalled the creation of another Rhodesia...