Word: grave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...handles foreign affairs with a punchy line for each issue. Defense: We will suffer "the peace of the grave unless we are willing to say we will never be second to any nation on earth in our ability to defend ourselves." Détente: Its major result for the U.S. has been the "acquisition of the right to sell Pepsi-Cola in Siberia." SALT: "The cruise missile: Will it be removed from our defensive arsenal to win a smile from those who continue to pledge and promise our destruction...
...Harvard Medical School psychiatrist warned a national science conference Thursday that there is a grave danger in the growing medical tendency to prescribe Valium and Librium tranquilizers "to save the doctor time and avoid the reality of a patient's emotional problems...
...their lowest ebb. Kissinger has just about given up hope of capping his career with a new Middle East breakthrough. Most important, the Secretary of State's great desire that a new Strategic Arms Limitation treaty with the Soviets could be signed this year is in grave jeopardy. Rumors swirl in Washington that he may quit in a couple of months. Says one of his aides: "Henry feels that the walls are closing...
...early January 1975, Kissinger stated in an interview in Business Week that the US "would consider using military force in the Middle East under circumstances of grave emergency--if say, the industrialized world became threatened with economic strangulation." US News and World Report later noted that "to make clear that this (Kissinger) statement was neither accidental nor casual but rather a deliberate declaration of American policy, the State Department distributed the interview in advance under its own imprimatur. And the white House subsequently announced that Mr. Kissinger was reflecting the views of Mr. Ford...
Macabre Contest. As Author Pagan points out, looting the past was nothing new in Egypt. Grave robbers went to work shortly after the first pharaoh was laid to rest. The ancient Egyptian tombs were treasure-houses of gold, jewelry, furniture and other artifacts thought to be needed in the afterlife. The poor, who could scarcely get through their present life, took a skeptical view of such hoarding and helped themselves. The security of buried pharaohs became a macabre contest. As grave robbers prepared to descend on a site, loyal priests who had set guards on the mummies would rush...