Word: grave
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...thing is, never mind the old expression that you're digging your grave with your teeth; there is growing suspicion, not to mention evidence, that our national-fitness fixation has come off the hinge, that there are those among us who are guiltlessly, remorselessly, allowing themselves to kick off their Nikes, sink deep into a couch and stay there. "You used to be quite a dish," said a middle-aged wag upon meeting a former lover. "Now you're quite the tureen...
White House sources have provided Time with specifics on heretofore undetailed joint U.S.-Vietnamese investigations into the fate of American POWS AND MIAS. In Vietnam, since January 1992, there have been eight joint field searches and 40 crash- or grave-site excavations; also, 422 cases from files and 92 live sightings were checked out. Vietnam and the U.S. have been making searches together in Laos and Cambodia as well; there have been a total of roughly 170 investigations of various types in the former country and 110 in the latter. The high numbers seem to indicate that Vietnam -- recently...
...author seeks, admirably, to dispel the myth of children's innocence by questioning our tendency to locate childhood in an Edenic state of prelapsarian innocence. To ascribe to them an imagined innocence is to do them and adults a grave disservice...
Various child-development experts weighed in with their views in amicus briefs to the court. Moving the baby now, wrote Professor Solnit, who is also a senior research scientist at the Yale Child Study Center, could pose a grave risk to her development. In his clinical work, Solnit has found that for a child so young, being removed from a home and placed with people who, however loving, are strangers to her can lead to "a loss of intellectual capacity." The hour-to-hour, day-to-day experiences of the first two to three years of life, he argues...
...their immediate concern is focused on the consequences of Mubarak's intensified antiterrorist campaign. Within hours after the seven were hanged last week, the militant Islamic Group that claims its inspiration from Sheik Abdel Rahman distributed leaflets in Cairo mosques charging Mubarak with "digging his dark grave with his own hands. He gives reasons to kill and destroy him every day of his black rule." Cairo's hard-line approach may succeed in frightening the fundamentalists into submission. But it may just as well make martyrs of those Mubarak punishes and thus increase the risk of even bloodier confrontations...