Word: grave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scandinavia for years has been the model for democratic socialism, with cradle-to-grave welfare systems that assure everybody of life's essentials. The price, of course, has been enormous bureaucracies, staggering tax rates and an inevitable loss of individual initiative. For some Scandinavians, the socialist dream has turned into a nightmare. Last September, voters in Sweden (pop. 8,132,000) nearly threw out their socialist government after 41 years in power, and elections in Norway (pop. 3,930,000) diminished a longtime socialist majority. Last week tiny Denmark (pop. 4,963,000) was on the verge of political...
Inside, the Institute professors made rounds with students to make sure that the facilities remained intact. At the same time the faculty senate appealed to the government to respect academic asylum at a grave personal risk...
...March 1970 version and subsequent amendments severed the reciprocal relationship. An April 1970 amendment made "intense personal harassment of such a character as to amount to grave disrespect for the dignity of others" a violation requiring punishment. The CRR was left to judge what "intense harassment" meant...
Then the coffin is borne through the mud and past the grunting of the pigs up to a plateau where the graveyard lies above the dark hills and valleys. The grave was dug the day before among the similar small graves which comprise more than half of the graveyard. Don Faustino lowers the casket, pours holy water over it in the shape of the cross, covers it with planks and quickly, with the help of other men, shovels the dirt back...
...Turquoise Lament, McGee learns that a thieving Florida lawyer blocks the forward progress of justice-and of the plot. He invades the miscreant's country estate, eases him from the middle of a disgraceful orgy, binds him and drops him live into a freshly dug backwoods grave-a marvel of vengeful fantasy. Lawyers are the schoolyard bullies of modern society, against whom no ordinary child dares battle, and here is one of them with fear in his heart and swamp water in his ears, lying at the bottom of a mucky hole and spilling out his guilt to McGee...