Word: graved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Across France last week, doctors were trying to make a monkey of the government-controlled health-insurance system. A patient might have nothing more serious than a cut finger, but the doctor would fill in his form showing "grave lacerations, permanent incapacity probable.'' A Paris arrondissement was thrown into uproar by the report of a case of yaws, which proved to be a physician's whimsical entry for la grippe. In many areas, coroners had to invoke police aid to force doctors to make out death certificates-and quite a few were signed "Paul Bacon...
Route to Ambush. Even when peace came, the Rhee authorities refused the villagers redress. In fact, no Shinwon survivors dared visit the mass grave because those who went were immediately put on the government's list of suspected Communist sympathizers. When Democratic Party Assemblyman Suh Min Ho called for an investigation, the government soon hustled him off to jail on hastily trumped-up charges. When the Assembly persisted and dispatched an investigating committee to Shinwon, the legislators were ambushed en route and forced to flee for their lives. Posing as an expert, Colonel Kim blandly identified the ambushers...
Last week, with Rhee fallen from power and most of the hated police hiding indoors, 70 relatives of the Shinwon victims plucked up their nerve, made a pilgrimage to the mass grave. Then they set to work clearing away underbrush and Setting up gravestones. Suddenly they were swept by an impulse for revenge. Unable to take reprisals against the absent Colonel Kim, they marched to the house of Park Yung Bo, who had been mayor in Colonel Kim's time, and as the owner of a rice-winery was still the town's richest man. Dragging Park...
...Central Intelligence Agency for its "stupidity in sending a flying spy to risk getting caught in the middle of Russia just before the summit conference." Said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "Do our intelligence operatives enjoy so much freewheeling authority that they can touch off an incident of grave international import by low-level decisions unchecked by responsible policymaking power?" The Post-Dispatch also called for an official investigation "into the circumstances which placed our country before the world in the light of a barefaced liar." The Sacramento Bee said the Eisenhower Administration had "left matters so subordinates could wreck...
...thanatipsy Topper. In a first novel that is both sepulchral and oddly appealing. Author Beagle sets out to make good the omission. His tale is a muted, wistful love story that takes tone and title from Andrew Mar-veil's wry lines To His Coy Mistress: The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace...