Word: grave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defenders were hardly able to resist. Said one of the last radio messages from inside the camp: "We are without water. We are close to the breaking point. Three thousand people are seriously wounded or dying of hunger. Every empty plot of ground is the site of a grave...
...West was by temperament an ideal official artist: studious, methodical, competent, a bovine draftsman. But his neoclassical work, done under the first impact of Naples and Rome, is another matter: the small sketch for West's first classical subject, The Landing of Agrippina at Brundisium (1766), is a grave and stony image. West's intense curiosity about classical prototypes leaves no doubt as to the impact of Europe on his receptive mind...
Cole Porter write A Fine Romance [July 12]? Jerome Kern is turning in his grave, sighing Miss Fields regrets...
...Palestinians brought their difficulties on themselves. Arafat's decision to take up arms in Lebanon to help the Moslem Lebanese, who had long supported the P.L.O. in its fight against Israel, was a grave error. It was indeed Arafat's worst mistake since 1970, when Palestinian forces operated so openly and defiantly in Jordan that King Hussein's army finally tossed them out in that year's famous Black September...
...which humorless people will not go to analyze humor," said Robert Benchley. If the 180 behavioral scientists who last week attended the world's first International Symposium on Humor at the University of Wales had listened closely, they might have heard a sigh from Benchley's grave. TIME London Correspondent Christopher Byron attended the three-day meeting and sent this report...