Word: graved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surprised by the visit that he didn't even have time to deck Warsaw's streets with welcome banners. But Khrushchev had more on his mind than just a social call. The pair disappeared to an isolated hunting lodge in northern Poland to confer over the grave issues on the Berlin agenda. One is West Berlin, where Allied troops are still entrenched more than four years after his ultimatum that the Allies get out. The other bone in Nikita's throat is Peking, for the Sino-Soviet quarrel has seemingly passed the point of no return...
...Evgeny Evtushenko rose to his friend's defense. "He came back from the war with 14 bullets in his body," said Evtushenko, "and I hope he will live many more years and produce many more fine works of art." "As people say," shot back Nikita brutally, "only the grave corrects a hunchback." Evtushenko managed a brave reply: "I hope, Comrade Khrushchev, we have outlived the time when the grave was used as a means of correction." The audience was stunned, then burst into applause; even Khrushchev sheepishly joined...
Foredoomed Hope. For Macmillan, already beset by grave political and economic difficulties at home (see THE WORLD), the Sky-bolt decision threatened disaster. He had built his foreign policy around the idea that his nation's "special relationship" with the U.S. gave Britain influence in world affairs out of all proportion to its military and economic power. Before boarding a plane for the Bahamas, Macmillan managed a jaunty smile and cheerful words. "I have no doubt," he said, "that we shall find our way through our difficulties in the spirit of agreement we have always had with the American...
When the chief of Peking's delegation finally got the floor, a hush came over the hall. He denounced Moscow for not returning "blow for blow" in Cuba, and Tito for having "restored capitalism" in Yugoslavia. "It is extremely grave," he continued, "that at this congress the views of the Chinese Communist Party were attacked directly...
...distinction between rich and poor may end at the grave, but in France, where some churches offer ten classes of funerals, it does not end a moment before. About $10 will send the French workingman to his maker in a dignified but austere manner; a minimum of $1,500 gives eminent members of the bourgeoisie a church bedecked inside and out with black silk draperies embossed with the initials of the deceased, plus a chorus of 30 voices accompanied by harps, trumpets, violins and cellos, and an elaborately carved casket resting on an ornate catafalque built especially for the occasion...