Word: grave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nature an alarmist, but the situation here has reached alarming proportions. You still have time for a new professional diplomatic initiative and declaration, but if you ignore, dismiss or neglect this opportunity, then I fear that the future of the gulf will be placed in grave peril...
...past her outside the courthouse where his divorce from Christine has just been made official, only to see her at the railroad station when, always the incurable romantic, he jumps aboard her train. First seen in The 400 Blows, his mother's lover comes back to show Antoine her grave in the Montmartre cemetary...
...cobwebs of grave sin and mental disorder are beginning to clear. Gays and straights now finally realize that closets are for clothes...
...alcoholism. The yearly consumption of hard liquor works out to 21 quarts for every man, woman and child; one in ten deaths is alcohol related, and job absenteeism is endemic. So grave is the situation that the parliament is planning to impose liquor rationing soon. Then there is venereal disease, which afflicts perhaps a third of the adults...
Horne did a super job of battling Zimmerman, passing him occasionally, but primarily waiting for the Tiger giant to dig his grave. "The longer the point went the better chance I had," Horne said last night...