Word: graved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gagarin's alleged space flight, as reported is so full of contradictions as to be unbelievable. Your naive acceptance of this Russian hoax as truth is an insult to the intelligence of every thinking American and does a grave injustice to those engaged in our own space program...
...this is not only economic folly but a grave political error as well, if the psychological attitude of the Bolivian people and its evident dislike of the M.N.R. regime is borne in mind. I counseled that these dollars, instead of being placed at the disposal of the government, be deposited in a special account of the Ministry of Education, and under the supervision of Point Four officials in La Paz, to pay the salaries of the poor Bolivian teachers that presently earn the equivalent of $20 per month and, with the remainder, to build schools, both urban and rural. Thus...
...Agent in Heaven." "St. Philomena" was "discovered" on May 24, 1802 in the catacomb of St. Priscilla on Rome's Via Saleria Nova as the skeleton of a 13-to 15-year-old girl with a badly fractured skull. On her grave was the cryptic inscription: LUMENA PAXTE CUM FI. The letters of the inscription were on tiles, and scholars came to the conclusion that they had somehow become misplaced-perhaps by an artisan who could not read-and should have been PAX TECUM FILUMENA. The presence of a glass phial containing the remains of what was assumed...
...bone, huddle 13 to a room, lie covered with ghastly sores on beds of rags, fall dead by the hundreds on the streets every day. The corpses lie covered with flies till the corpse crews find them, fling them on carts, dump them down a chute into a mass grave...
...fast and too close together for comfort," said Ford, "we have had a series of falls from grace involving some of our oldest and most respected business firms. I think that what has happened has very grave implications for all of us in business." Ford referred to "price-fixing convictions in the one industry and conflict-of-interest charges in the other," in obvious reference to the conflict-of-interest troubles of a Ford competitor, Chrysler (see following story). To prevent recurrences, said Ford, top corporate executives must take full responsibility for setting up high ethical standards and strict policies...