Word: graved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...months after Ben Barka's disappearance, French police in the course of their investigation searched the villa's garden. Of course, they did not find the body, which by then was lying in its grave on the Il de la Grande Jatte...
London agreed that new conservation measures were needed. But, said Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Minister Frederick Peart, "we do not consider that the present state of the stock is so grave as to require extreme measures." The new rules proposed by Iceland would reduce the British catch, much of which winds up in fish 'n' chips, from 130,000 tons a year to 65,000 tons. Negotiations broke off last month after Iceland rejected London's counterproposal of 110,000 tons...
...candlestick-cum-reliquary depicting the flight into Egypt, borrowed from a church in Gaeta, is an exquisite example of how late medieval French styles penetrated into Italian taste at the end of the 14th century. Bernardino da Foligno's late quattrocento bust of St. Balduino has a grave nobility and an intensity of modeling that, one supposes, the saint's living features could not have had. (The actual head of St. Balduino, like a stone in a peach, lies encased within the sculpture...
...gone far beyond simple politeness. They have adapted to repressive environments, the very thing they speak against back home. In Peking, the Americans were more secretive than the Chinese. Mao has become God not only to his gray ranks but also in a way to the State Department, a grave distortion in a world where the Chinese need us more than we need them. When Betty Ford said that Mao had lighted up on seeing Daughter Susan, an American reporter laughed, "There's life in the old boy yet." Officials of the U.S. mission in Peking clapped their hands...
...been told that Hoffa's murderers stuffed his body into a 55-gallon oil drum, carted it across the country and buried it in a dump in Jersey City. This week FBI bulldozers will begin to turn over the trash and garbage in an effort to find the grave of Jimmy Hoffa...