Word: graved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other capitals, also won assurances from Britain's Harold Wilson and India's Indira Gandhi that they would take up the issue during their visits to Moscow. To underscore these maneuverings, Secretary of State Dean Rusk warned that maltreatment of American airmen would be considered "a very grave development indeed...
...subjects when it must be apparent that they would not have been available if they had been truly aware of the uses that would be made of them. It seems obvious that further hundreds have not known that they were the subjects of an experiment." Dr. Beecher charges that "grave consequences" have been suffered as the result of such work. In no case does he name the hospital or doctors involved; in no case does he give dates. But before they published his paper, the Journal's editors satisfied themselves about the authenticity of all his examples. Among them...
...murderers are some where around me at this moment." "They're right behind you," chuckled a white onlooker, to roars of delight from fellow townsmen. Said King, "I'm not afraid of any man. Before I will be a slave, I will be dead in my grave." Shouted a chorus of whites: "We'll help...
Scotland's James Boswell (1740-95) has done most of his growing in the grave. Until he died, his Life of Samuel Johnson was more esteemed as a feat of stenography than as a work of literature. In the 19th century, the book was accurately revalued as the first great biography in English, but its author was dismissed by proper Victorians as a whoremongering buffoon. "Servile and impertinent," Lord Macaulay called him, "a bigot and a sot, a talebearer, a common butt in the taverns of London." But Boswell was to have the last word -in fact, several million...
Reischauer feels that another area of "grave misunderstanding" is over the question of relations with China. There is pressure in Japan to have full and friendly relations with China, but many Japanese are convinced that their inability to consumate this relationship is a result of the close ties between Japan...