Word: graved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Running out of steam-and questions -Erhard looked around the room for support from Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder and Defense Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel. They, like Erhard, are pro-British, and like Erhard, have grave reservations about Adenauer's comradeship with De Gaulle. But neither was prepared to bring down the government; Schroder found a sudden fascination in his thumbnails; Von Hassel shuffled papers...
...those long odds overtook the nation's youngest metropolitan daily, the Arizona Journal. Scant weeks short of its first birthday, the Journal found itself out of print, out of money, heavily in debt, and laid out for burial. About all that kept the infant paper out of the grave was a flicker of outside interest...
...made only linguistic progress.'' A French delegate lightly added. "If we reach an agreement, it will be based on a misunderstanding.'' On Tuesday morning. U.S. Ambassador John Tuthill hurried around to the delegations to deliver a last-minute warning from President Kennedy, pointing out the grave consequences of a breakdown in the negotiations. The Six reconvened at noon to hear the West German proposal that was intended to save face for everyone by postponing a decision for two months. A stormy discussion followed, and Couve de Murville icily professed astonishment that a plan could even...
...continual, often contradictory questioning of, mulling over, joking about, Frost's (and man's) place in the world and what can or cannot be known (and done) about it. Heroic pronouncements, grandiose, soul-satisfying finalities, were not his style. "There may be much or little beyond the grave." he wrote. "But the strong are saying nothing until they see." Survival for the individual, he felt, was a difficult job. a thing to be handled alone and with prudence. If he himself, like the woodchuck, lasts...
...just before the hearse. If the victim looked sick enough, Casimir would give him a quarter. "Go buy yourself some ice cream," he would say cheerily, tipping his hat to the dying man's family. Everyone knew that a quarter from Casimir had the chill of the grave on it. At funerals, the band would play John Casimir's Whoopin' Blues, and the woebegone wail of Casimir's clarinet sounded like a widow's cry against the big brassy shout of his band...