Word: grave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it's a grave mistake," ThomasProfessor of Linguistics and the Classics CalvertWatkins said yesterday. "I don't think thecommittee would work as well as the departmentdoes...
While the encyclical reiterates the pope's conservative stance on issues of sexuality, it will prove far more controversial for the position it stakes out on the role of the Catholic clergy in stifling dissent. According to the Times report, "The Pope tells the bishops that they have a 'grave obligation to be personally vigilant' and must take 'appropriate measures to insure that the faithful are guarded from every doctrine and theory contrary' to official church teaching...
...Lansing, Michigan. Ronald Pollack, the executive director of Families U.S.A., a foundation that develops programs for the elderly, told Clinton that managed care was a secret weapon he could spring on Bush. Clinton could strike a populist chord by helping business lower costs, by providing Americans with cradle-to-grave coverage and by standing up to such special interests as doctors, drug companies and insurance firms. Best of all, the plan required no new taxes. Clinton loved it. As he heard the details, he punched the air with his fist time and again...
...freezing -- an extraordinary 0 degrees Fahrenheit -- and it's snowing, and in the language that is no longer mine, the snow is qanik -- big, almost weightless crystals falling in clumps and covering the ground with a layer of pulverized white frost. December darkness rises up from the grave...
...literary life, spending his career as a librarian in provincial cities. Formidably shy, he never married, remaining deeply attached to a burdensome mother until her death at 91, when he was 55. He was a drinker and a jazz buff, but he habitually cloaked himself in a grave manner (when he turned 60, Alan Bennett asked, "but when was he anything else...