Word: graved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Britain's National Health Service offers free medical care from cradle to grave, but increasing numbers of Britons fear they may be in their graves before they reach the end of the interminable queues for services. Seeking an alternative, 2,000,000 Britons now pay for additional private medical insurance. The number has doubled in ten years, and private insurers predict that 5,000,000 people, a tenth of the population of England and Wales, will eventually be covered by their policies...
...solemnly declare," they said, "that this nation is entering a period in which our people need to be as concerned by internal dangers to our free society as by any probable combination of external threats." The report cites a number of grave social ills, from racial discrimination to "the dislocation of human identity" caused by an affluent society. To combat a rising tide of violence, the commission called on the Government to reduce military spending as soon as the Viet Nam War is over and to increase money for general welfare programs by $20 billion a year...
Five students with no disciplinary records were merely present at the demonstration. These students have been warned that disciplinary action against them for any future misconduct will be "all the more grave" because of their actions on November...
Greenberg denied that the suit is designed to halt criticism of the war. He said he would sue regardless of the content of the political actions. "I just think it's a grave mistake for an educational institution to get involved in political activities." he said...
...defense of "superior orders" has been unsuccessful in some cases that involve grave crimes. In 1954, an Army review board affirmed the murder conviction of an enlisted man who had shot a Korean to death while guarding an airfield. The guard claimed that he had been ordered to fire on anyone who did not heed his order to halt, and his lawyer said that this made him, in effect, an automaton without criminal intent. The review board rejected the argument...