Word: grave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...someone does not provide soon, Argentina's constitutional system will be in grave danger. Last week dozens of terrorist bombings shook Buenos Aires, leaving one dead and several wounded. Six police stations were also attacked. So far, the armed forces have obediently stayed in their barracks. Still, sources close to the military acknowledge that chaos in the streets, coupled with continued failure of the civilian government to head off economic ruin, could eventually provoke a coup...
...warned a group of Senators and Congressmen about the European Security Conference scheduled this month in Helsinki to settle East-West disputes unresolved from World War II. Solzhenitsyn predicted that in Helsinki "an amicable agreement of diplomatic shovels will bury and pack down corpses still breathing in a common grave...
...Prime Minister Harold Wilson himself and not Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey who stepped up to the dispatch box in the House of Commons. In the ominous tones he reserves for grave occasions, Wilson told the House of the "economic catastrophe" facing the country. To reverse the tide of inflation (running at an annual rate of 28%) and to calm the jitters of foreign creditors who had caused the pound sterling to hit an all-time low, Wilson formally spelled out the details of Healey's proposed new program of wage, price and dividend controls (TIME, July...
...order to cope with the inadequacies of the market, a rising number of experts urge capitalist governments to adopt some form of economic planning. But a grave problem is that command planning, in which government bureaucrats decide how much and just what goods are to be produced, is the antithesis of capitalism. Western European nations are even disillusioned with their persuasion-and-incentive plans of the 1960s, which also generally failed to anticipate the economic crises of the 1970s. Yet more and more people in the U.S. seem attracted to the idea of setting up a federal body that would...
Harry Thaw empties his pistol into the face of Architect Stanford White, the lover of Thaw's showgirl wife Evelyn Nesbit. White goes to his grave and Thaw to an insane asylum. But Doctorow has his own plans for Evelyn. Down from her red velvet swing, she drifts to the immigrant slums of New York's Lower East Side, where her social consciousness is raised by anarchist Emma Goldman. Sigmund Freud confronts the pleasure principle at Coney Island and cannot get back to Vienna fast enough...