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Word: grave (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Peter Hirsch, portraying Carroll, speaks of combining the grave and the gay. This is a noble endeavor, but not one to be lightly undertaken, as it demands both greater structure and development than Alice gives...

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: A Modern Looking Glass | 10/20/1989 | See Source »

...discrimination laws. But the Seventh Circuit, siding with the company, two weeks ago concluded that the workers had failed to show that the health hazard could be eliminated by anything less than the sweeping measure in question. Said the court: "The unborn child has no opportunity to avoid this grave danger, but bears the definite risk of suffering permanent consequences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Bias Or Safety? | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...pulled it over her head. She felt calmeras she drifted towards sleep. As her grey eyesclosed she shot ahead in time and thought: shefirst saw her grandmother's drawn face in acoffin, not looking peaceful but rather devoid ofconcern. Then the thump of the earth against thecoffin as the grave was filled; finally the crossas it hung about her neck thumping against herchest with every step. The joy of a treasuredmemory filled her; she slept...

Author: By Jenny LYN Bader, | Title: Superstition | 10/11/1989 | See Source »

...summer of 1986 in London, she demonstrated her range by alternating as the worldly queen in Antony and Cleopatra and the humiliated, housebound maiden in The Taming of the Shrew. If anything linked those two roles, it was only the pained look they shared, that unforgettable gaze from those grave and piercing eyes as they take in the unimaginable perfidy of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Vanessa Ascending | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

...defending the checkpoint program, MichiganAttorney General Frank Kelley told the justicesthat fighting drunken driving is a "grave andlegitimate public interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: High Court Chooses Cases for New Term | 10/3/1989 | See Source »

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