Word: graved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Byrd told the President that he had "an uphill road to travel for ratification." A foretaste of how emotional the debate may be was provided by retired Congressman Hamilton Fish Jr., 88, who charged that supporters of the new treaty want to "impeach the great Theodore Roosevelt in the grave by sticking a dagger in his back...
...Bell vice president at Gravitt's funeral warned him not to join the dead man's family in a suit against the company, saying "You file that suit and the Bell employees will hound you to death. That son of a bitch [Gravitt] lies in the grave-you're next...
...claiming he favored the Queens borough for a time because "Queens girls are prettier." He did not walk casually away from the murder sites and slip into the dark. "I ran like hell." He revisited at least two of the scenes of his crimes and tried to find the grave of his first victim, Donna Lauria, 18, whom he had not known but for whom he seemed to develop a posthumous affection...
...Hackman is pitted in an early sequence against a scholar from the Louvre (Max von Sydow), who believes that the recovery of a few life-enriching shards of history and art is well worth the loss of hundreds of Legion and Arab lives. "We're both in the grave business," sneers Hackman. "You dig them up and I fill them in." Later, Von Sydow seems to lose the thread of the argument and takes to sitting in corners and gazing hungrily at Deneuve...
...William Scorton is raised by his father, a veteran artilleryman who has used the military to escape from the coal mines of his youth. Equating discipline with love, the father trains his young son to become an artillery gunner; when he takes William to visit his mother's grave, he carts along a compass so that they can make a field map of the cemetery. This utilitarian education takes: William wins a scholarship to the Military College of Science, receives a wartime-accelerated commission in the artillery, and behaves with bravery before and during the British retreat to Dunkirk...