Word: graved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...themselves, regardless of its doubtful grammar. They have taken on this appellation to cover their positions as chicken killers, kosher slaughterers, synagogue beadles, ritual arrangers, providers of a minyan (made famous by Paddy Chayefsky's Tenth Man), circumcisers, cantors, choir singers, undertakers, burial arrangers, and frequently even grave diggers, not to speak of the ubiquitous shammash (originally "servant"), who is the real factotum in every well-run synagogue or temple. I wonder if they like to be called or to call themselves "reverends" because of its similarity in sound to the real appellation of the modern-day Jewish clergyman...
They made her a grave too cold and damp...
Firmly United. Strictly speaking, De Gaulle had not even threatened to quit this time. But his ministers had repeatedly warned that a defeat for the Gaullist Union for a New Republic (U.N.R.) would result in an "immediate, grave crisis." At the Elysee Palace, De Gaulle's files were packed and ready for removal to Colombey; to friends, he pointedly remarked that he might soon start on Volume IV of his memoirs. After the October constitutional referendum in which, as De Gaulle privately admitted, he had won only a "flabby" victory, many observers predicted that the U.N.R. would lose...
...assignment of one dean to each House has been a marked improvement over the old administrative system, as it gives a dean more continuity in her relationships with students. Mrs. Jacquelyn Mattfeld, East House dean, points out that "we take students from the cradle to the grave academically. Under the old system, one dean dealt with picking fields of concentration and taking students through sophomore slump...
...hardship and suffering: "You must renounce home and family and possessions. That is how to be a Mormon. You must lead your young and rose-cheeked sweetheart out into the wilderness. One day she sinks to the ground of hunger and thirst, and dies. You dig a grave with your hands and bury her in the sand and put up a cross of two straws that blow away at once. That is how to be a Mormon...