Word: grave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...together they settled down to a quiet, productive life in New Jersey. Peace was short-lived, however. In 1932, the Lindberghs' first and then only child, 20-month-old Charles Jr., was kidnaped from a second-floor nursery. Ten weeks later, the body was found in a shallow grave in some woods near the Lindbergh home. Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a Bronx carpenter, was later convicted in probably the most celebrated trial of the century, and then electrocuted for the murder. Throughout the search for Charles Jr. and throughout the Hauptmann trial, the Lindberghs were hounded by the press, which...
...flown to Maui, where he arranged the details of his funeral and burial as meticulously as he had planned his flight to Paris 47 years before. Following his instructions, he was buried within eight hours after his death. Hawaiian cowboys crafted a roughhewn casket of eucalyptus wood, and a grave was quickly dug atop a cliff overlooking the Pacific. His body was dressed in a khaki work shirt and dark cotton work trousers and, according to his wishes, his pallbearers also wore simple work clothes. The other mourners, including his wife and his son Land, wore Hawaiian-style attire...
Both Greeks and Turks feared for the safety of those who had remained in their homes during the fighting but were now trapped in territory controlled by the other side. At Aloa, the Turks showed newsmen a mass grave that held the remains, so they said, of 57 Turkish Cypriots who had been murdered by Greek extremists. They uncovered only five corpses however. The Greeks countered with their own accusations of rape and murder. According to U.N. officials, both sides were exaggerating their tales of atrocity...
...effects: increasing pangs of greed for what he can appreciate but not afford, a habit of judging people by their acquisitions -and of being judged and found wanting in return. Muhlbach knows that his addiction lends moral support to a rapacious modern traffic in antiquities; operating on his behalf, grave robbers and smugglers struggle to finish the dispersal of pre-Columbian civilizations begun by the Spanish five centuries...
...work life will always be better off than his fellow worker who changes jobs." Noting that the bill allows employers to choose the vesting plan that costs the least and therefore provides the least protection to the employee, Ohio State Law Professor Merton C. Bernstein calls the measure "a grave disappointment" and worries that its passage will destroy the impetus for pension reform in the future. He has a point: the present bill was eight years in the drafting, under intense lobbying pressure all the while. Still, the act should go far toward assuring many workers of a more pleasant...