Word: grave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That day Franklin Roosevelt's press conference was a grave business. One question was uppermost in all minds. Correspondent Phelps Adams of the New York Sun uttered it: "Mr. President, can we stay out of it?" Franklin Roosevelt sat in silent concentration, eyes down, for many long seconds. Then, with utmost solemnity, he replied. "I not only sincerely hope so, but I believe we can, and every effort will be made by this Administration...
...script, overflows with praise: "One of the greatest living novelists." That may be gratifying, but Banks knows there's still more work to do. He'll quit teaching after this semester and move with his wife to their house in Keene, N.Y., not far from John Brown's grave. "You can start to see the horizon getting closer when you get to your late 50s," he explains. He has a writing cabin about a thousand yards from the Keene house. He will hike there each morning at 8. And from this outpost, six or seven days a week, he will...
...majesty is the very model of a modern European monarch -- she pays taxes, invites tourists into her home and dishes out knighthoods to rock stars. Her great-grandfather Edward VII, who would have lost the throne to his sister under the new rule, must be doing cartwheels in his grave...
...outbreak become clear. Taken together, these threads weave a story that begins 80 years ago and winds forward through venues as varied as a high-security lab in Ames, Iowa, the ancient tissue collections of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington and a frozen mass grave on Alaska's Seward Peninsula...
...provide adequate advising can have disastrous consequences--not just for those who "slipped through the cracks," but for their roommates, housemates and indeed everyone associated with the University. How sad that the emotional and academic health of its students only assumes center stage with the University at times of grave tragedy...