Word: grave
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next day Dr. Obukhov again called me in and said that Andrei was on the brink of death, that his extrasystole was very bad, that he was suffering from grave atherosclerosis in the brain vessels and that he either had Parkinson's disease or symptoms of it. And that I should not worry him. I yelled, saying that as doctors they should understand that a man in that state of health cannot be kept isolated for four months from the only available person dear to him; I also accused them of having brought on his worsened condition by giving...
...word for it in Japanese is ayamachi, diplomatic argot for a grave mistake, even a sin. Last week none other than Yasuhiro Nakasone, Prime Minister of Japan, committed a world-class ayamachi when he told a meeting of his Liberal Democratic Party, "So high is the level of education in our country that Japan's is an intelligent society. Our average score is much higher than those of countries like the U.S. There are many blacks, Puerto Ricans and Mexicans in America. In consequence the average score over there is exceedingly...
...largely propaganda maneuvers designed to put Reagan on the defensive; after the U.S. air strike against Libya, a Soviet client, Moscow called off a summit-planning visit by Shevardnadze to Shultz that had been scheduled for May. Each side kept grumbling that the behavior of the other raised grave doubts about how much it wanted either a summit or an agreement of any kind. The tone of the superpower exchanges began to change over the summer, as a variety of exchanges between the President and the Soviet leader encouraged arms experts in Geneva to make solid progress. But then...
Referring to the FBI's arrest in August of a Soviet employee of the United Nations accused of spying for the Kremlin, Reagan said: "Misusing the United Nations for purposes of espionage does a grave disservice to this organization. The world expects better...
...such people, the only peaceful solution to the Middle East problem is a peace of the grave, a Zionist grave. Any settlement short of that will leave the terrorists unappeased. It will not solve the terrorists' problem. It thus does not solve the terrorism problem...