Word: grave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mutual-fund complex founded by Bernard Cornfeld that marketed its shares mostly to middle-income Europeans. In one of the largest security-fraud suits ever brought by the SEC, Vesco and his associates were charged last Nov. 27 with selling off $224 million worth of I.O.S.-held stocks-causing grave losses to investors-and salting the money away in banks and dummy companies that the accused controlled. Last week's indictments specify the following...
...Watergate [April 30]: it's enough to make Checkers roll over in his grave...
...time of the Watergate breakin. Dean described the meeting?in one version also attended by Bob Haldeman?as one full of "smiles." He said that Nixon remarked to him: "Bob here tells me you've been doing fine work." If accurately reported by Dean, the meeting has grave implications. It means that Nixon knew some eight months ago that his high aides had worked to obstruct the various investigations in the case?and the President has been lying to the public about Watergate at least since that time. Dean's motives were certainly cloudy, and his story very much remains...
...production -- though it occasionally adulterates its amusing recipe -- rarely forgets that, as Gwendolyn says, "In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing." It is not important to be earnest, but simply to be Ernest...
...crowned with olives by New York critics for The Underground Man (1971), has obligingly written his usual highly polished existential mystery once more. This time the title is Sleeping Beauty, and naturally the book hinges on a 25-year-old murder, witnessed by a child. Also from beyond the grave, the fine voice of Poet John Berryman is raised in precise, anguished prose (Recovery), telling about a man's struggles with alcoholism and memories of his father's suicide...