Word: graved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expression in your article on the Fifth Circuit Court [Dec. 4] does a serious injustice to my fellow Alabamians, viz.: "After his son's death in an auto accident, Judge Richard T. Rives was honored by his fellow Alabamians-they threw garbage on his son's grave...
...killed more than two years before I became a judge. Many years after I had gone on the bench, someone, whether an Alabamian or not I have no means of knowing, threw red paint and garbage on our son's grave. Whoever committed such an atrocity must have been mentally ill. Certainly, it should not be charged to my fellow Alabamians, the overwhelming majority of whom are as fine, decent, and fair-minded people as can be found anywhere...
...first things James Bryant Conant, does in his latest book, Shaping Educational Policy, is to admit to a grave moral defect in the first book he wrote about education, The American High School Today...
Dishonored Grave. The Fifth's all-Southern judges have inevitably been denounced by Alabama's Governor George Wallace as "scallywagging, carpetbagging federal judges." They have been ostracized by former friends, constantly threatened by all-night phone callers. After his son's death in an auto accident, Judge Richard T. Rives was honored by his fellow Alabamians-they threw garbage on his son's grave...
...movie about Churchill, even a standard patch-up of newsreel clips and familiar speeches, could fail to be moving and dramatic, for he was one of the few consciously theatrical performers in the history of democratic government. His grave and measured voice, somehow made even more sonorous by his lisp, and his majestic, defiant prose gave each of his countrymen a sense of historic purpose and helped keep alive a reassuring belief in the possibility of individual heroism throughout the mass slaughter of World War II. To see a film clip of, say, Neville Chamberlain...