Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waiting car, to avoid photographers out front. He went quietly, freely admitting his B deception. A shocked Bundestag committee quickly lifted his parliamentary immunity. The charges brought against him as he sat in Bonn jail: forgery of documents, unauthorized job-holding, use of false name and-a grave offense in Germany-unauthorized use of a Ph.D...
Spirits. In Birmingham. Ala., cops got a tip and rushed to a local cemetery, dug into an odd-looking grave, exhumed a 55-gallon moonshine still, uncovered its fuel supply in the adjacent plot...
...School For Scandal: "Sometimes we are inclined to be surfeited with too much of these intellectual fireworks." The Brattle Theatre's modern adaptation of the late 18th Century comedy of manners is a display of fireworks--intellectual and non-intellectual--that would make Mr. Nicoll turn over in his grave...
While Mather's grandfather expressed grave doubts as to the value of an education "in that God-less University of Chicago," Mather himself, began to get bored "peddling my bicycle back and forth from my home to college and not getting anything out of college," so he switched to Denison College where he majored in Geology...
...part of the tilt of my mind that I put it down often." His feeling about poetry in general? "I like to think of it as statements made on the way to the grave." The Academy of American Poets announced that its 1952 fellowship, worth $5,000 (the biggest poetry prize in the U.S.) has been awarded to Irish-born Padraic Colum, 71, now a lecturer at Columbia University...