Word: graved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each evening we sat erect, hands clasped on desks, while she told us, "Boys and girls, you are just one day nearer your grave...
Stevenson did not have to be told what the unexpected business was-the news ticker had told of it an hour earlier. A battered corpse lay buried at the bottom of a secret grave thousands of miles away in the desolate eastern Congo bush. Patrice Lumumba, ex-beer salesman, ex-embezzler, ex-Premier, was dead. Russia was obviously preparing to make the most of it, and Stevenson quickly got on the telephone to tell Washington to brace itself for the onslaught...
...sentences to those he felt had "ultimate responsibility for corporate conduct"-but he made it clear that he did not think that all the guilty parties were in court. Though the Government could not get enough evidence against them, he said, the "highest echelons" of each company "bear a grave responsibility." Most of the defendants, said the judge, "were torn between conscience and an approved corporate policy, with the rewarding objectives of promotion, comfortable security and large salaries-in short, the organization or company man, the conformist." Even to those whom he did not send to jail, the judge gave...
When The Key was published in Japan, the obvious question was: Is it pornography or literature? A little of both, perhaps. What gives it distinction is the author's astuteness in observing a human crisis, his grave, almost solemn tone, and his simple, carefully considered prose. Author Tanizaki has created his effect without employing even a hint of the D. H. Lawrence vocabulary...
...Washington, though that is also true. The question is whether Kennedy will be pressured into the kind of thinking that characterized and crippled the conduct of diplomacy under Eisenhower. Man-to-man talks gave leaders valuable knowledge of each other, but they bred foolish hopes and symbolic solutions to grave problems. The personal touch, the smile to the cheering crowds, the joint communique--all are hallmarks of a tradition which thinks reassuring people more important than facing reality...