Word: grave
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...choice' view will require great efforts to repair," San Diego Bishop Leo Maher wrote last week to Lucy Killea, 67, a Democrat running in a special election for California's state senate. He then applied a little used sanction that denies Communion to Catholics who "obstinately persist in manifest grave sin." Killea says she will abide by the decree but will not change her position. She is the first political candidate to receive this censure...
...Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has dealt with some powerful enemies in the past. As if combating communist-sympathizing church congregations and advocates of peace in El Salvador weren't enough to keep them busy, the FBI has found yet another grave threat to the national security...
Last April an estimated 900 people from the University attended the first-of-its-kind March on Washington to defend a woman's right to choose an abortion. The national situation has since become more grave for defenders of this right, with an increasingly antagonistic Republican administration in office and a Supreme Court handing down decisions like this past July's answer in Webster v. Reproductive Services, which made it legal for a state to restrict a woman's access to abortion...
...that the full magnificence of the Nimrud find is known, Muzahim is intensifying his search, hoping to find the tombs of Nimrud's all powerful kings. The hunt is not without its dangers, however. Only after opening Princess Yabahya's grave did Muzahim's team decipher the ancient cuneiform curse inscribed on a marble tablet: "If anyone lays hands on my tomb . . . let the ghost of insomnia take hold of him for ever and ever...
...group of 50 students tries to climb over the large metal spiked fence surrounding Leverett Towers. My journalistic instincts tell me that their reproductive organs are in grave danger of injury. "If one of them slips," a bystander comments knowingly, "it would really hurt...