Word: graved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Because he loved animals so, we put a watering trough in front of his grave," said Rhena Schweitzer Eclcert, 47. "A sheep lambed on his grave, and we think he would have liked that." Whether the late Albert Schweitzer would like what his daughter has been trying to do with his notoriously primitive hospital at Lambaréné since the doctor died last September is another matter. "We have finished the electrification of the wards," she reported, on a rare trip to New York, adding that a refuse-disposal system has replaced the garbage barrels that the goats used...
...reporting that a landing on Cuba seemed imminent. "Reston counselled against publication: either the story would alter Castro, in which case the Times would be responsible for casualties on the beach, or else the expidition would be cancelled in which case the Times would be responsible for grave interference with national policy...
Whatever the arguments, it was clear that China was once again talking tough. "This is an extremely grave incident," said the Peking report of the dogfight, "a deliberate, systematic act of war provocation by the Johnson Administration...
...accompanied Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition to Polynesia, succumbed to the charm of the South Seas and moved his family to Tahiti in 1956. There he bumped into the legend of Gauguin, who spent his last years in Tahiti and in the nearby Marquesas and whose grave on Hiva Oa Island surveys the Pacific. Danielsson soon discovered what was for him an astonishing fact: none of Gauguin's many biographers had ever bothered to measure the legend in the place where so much of it was made...
Allegretto Con Amore. It is as if Liszt or Paganini had returned from the grave. Everyone in the hall's 2,760 seats rises and gives the 61-year-old pianist a standing ovation before he has played a note. He rushes to the piano and begins. The lean, intense face seems to exhale a melancholy all its own, but the fingers are as joyous as they were in the old days. The Chopin sings; the opaque, psychedelic visions of Scriabin are somehow made lucid. A critic calls him still a monarch. His wife is overjoyed...