Word: graved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus, the Crimson was on firm ground when it rejected Mr. Chan's ad, which would have helped perpetuate a grave social evil--sexism. The Crimson would be on equally firm ground in rejecting Playboy subscription ads and sexist political ads which would perpetuate sexism to an equal or greater extent...
History, then, has not been kind to John F. Kennedy in the 15 years since his death. The predators have sacked the grave, yet somehow the essence of the Kennedy character remains elusive. Perhaps that essence has a chance of being captured now, in these "calmer days," when some objectivity can be applied to the Kennedy era. Young people judging Kennedy today have little ideological or emotional stake in their assessment of him. It is likely that they shall see Kennedy neither as a saint noras a Machiavellian prince. Indeed it is these very extremities of historical opinion which have...
Still, however, there remain major obstacles to the introduction of a national health insurance scheme. Vested interests spend much energy opposing such proposals -- but possibly more serious is the fact that large areas of public opinion tend to have vague notions about the grave disadvantages of what is generally referred to as "socialized medicine...
...will try to do something drastic about it at the biennial general conference of the 146-nation United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in Paris. Third World delegates are pushing for adoption of a draft declaration on the mass media that many Western diplomats and journalists consider a grave threat to press freedom. The document is based on a similar resolution proposed at UNESCO's 1970 meeting by the Soviets and rewritten since then to eliminate some of its more heinous features. Yet the present 1,500-word version still contains several provisions with chillingly Orwellian overtones. One would...
...Where has it liberalized them? On the contrary, I think that South Africa is drawing aid and comfort from the West at the moment. I think Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's recent trip to Pretoria, as reported, was a grave setback to black liberation in South Africa. He is reported to have told Pieter Botha, the new Prime Minister, that if South Africa plays ball over Namibia, the U.S. will tone down its criticism of apartheid. If that is so, it means that bargaining for a million Namibians is at the cost of more than 20 million South African...