Word: graved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Premier of Soviet Russia made the required pilgrimage this week to London's Highgate cemetery to pay homage at the grave of Karl Marx, the poverty-stricken, antisocial journalist who started it all. But Marx would not have approved of the company that Aleksei Nikolaevich Kosygin kept on his eight-day visit to Britain: it was far too typical of what he denounced as "capital enthroned...
...Roman Catholics, abortion is a grave moral wrong. For a growing number of Protestants and Jews, it is an act that is justified under certain circumstances. Currently, the differences between these views are of more than academic interest. The introduction of several state abortion reform bills has caused a loud and bitter interfaith debate on the subject-and has indicated that even in an era of ecumenical good will, there remain profound disparities between Catholicism and other faiths on fundamental issues...
...liberal leaders on the President's new Council should stick by the Howard thesis and press the matter. They did nothing of the sort. In retrospect it is clear that civil rights had become for them a cause that could no longer stimulate or inspire them to take any grave risks. Their strategy now consisted of appearing to take...
...latest outburst was the result of a very curious incident that occurred right in the epicenter of world Communism, Moscow's Red Square. There, 69 Chinese students, en route home from European universities to join the Red Guards, stopped off to place a wreath on Stalin's grave, reading from their little red Mao-think books and singing Maoist hymns. The two onetime allies gave their own versions of what happened next. Said the Chinese: "A large number of Soviet troops, policemen and plainclothesmen attacked them from all sides and beat them up. More than 30 were injured...
...Grave Disservice. Two of California's major newspapers, the Hearst Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and the Chandler-controlled Los Angeles Times (both families are represented on the board of regents), agreed editorially that Kerr's dismissal had been motivated by his longtime failure to quell student rebellion. The Times proposed that "doom criers," who talk about the university facing "a crisis from which it may not recover, do grave disservice to the university and to those who must cope with its problems." So far, at least, there was little evidence that Kerr's dismissal would have much...