Word: graved
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...Beware!" Conservative Party Leader Ted Heath called Wilson's decision "a grave moment in our country's history." He warned that the law would require an army of inspectors "to circulate in every shop and factory to see that no man is paid a penny more than the government decrees." Cried Heath: "Let us all beware!" Wilson's law would, he said, "lead to the smothering of initiative and to the flight of the enterprising from this country to other, freer lands." Dissatisfaction with Wilson was reflected last week in the Gallup poll, which gave the Tories...
Equally combustible is a Maryland high-court ruling that voided state grants for nonreligious facilities at three religious colleges. The court saw in the practice an unconstitutional "establishment of religion," thus casting grave doubt on similar federal support for church colleges and parochial schools. Even more combustible is Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Haire's challenge of tax exemption for churches, which the Maryland court unanimously rejected...
...troop of Confederate cavalry rustled about 2,500 steers from the Union forces and then sent them thundering through Grant's lines to the relief of Richmond. What's more, the story provides Director Edward Dmytryk with irresistible opportunities to plant a little poison ivy on the grave of Southern chivalry...
Everywhere he looked, the prospect was far from pleasing. "The unresolved problems of humanity," wrote New York Times Political Columnist Arthur Krock, "are as grave as any that burdened man before." In the U.S. in particular, things were in parlous shape. The Government, Krock complained, was endorsing "an evangelistic concept of world stewardship"; it had "discarded the most fundamental teaching of the foremost American military analysts by assuming the burden of a ground war between Asians in Asia." At home, the Constitution was being eroded by "the swollen powers of the President" and the "judge-made legislation" of the Supreme...
There are numerous other characters, most of them deliberate caricatures, only a few of them funny. The Salvation Army lady and the police inspector are perhaps the best. The movie concludes with a mad chase through a graveyard, everybody dancing happily over an open grave...