Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public. Zoll's group, the National Council for American Education ("I want to emphasize the word American," he says) dug up this information and went around grubbing for educators who had been members of these groups in order to fill up his mimeographed publications. There is still a grave doubt in many Americans' minds whether or not these investigations, by making such judgments without court sanction, overstepped constitutional lines. Certainly by publishing the names of members of the "subversive" groups in a "Reducator list," Zoll shattered the basic right of every individual to stand innocent until a court proves...
...both to Scrooge and the audience, is the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come who never speaks but just points to Scrooge's old love (now working in a poor house), to Bob Crachit's family (mourning the death of Tiny Tim), and to the clincher--Scrooge's own grave. Here again we sense Dickens' suggestion that the strongest argument of all is still survival...
...were on stage. The graduating girls proved even more tense than the high school group, for they clamped the pro-offered arms in vise-like grips. At the center of the stage was indeed an overflowing punch bowl, but it offered punch wholly without appeal. The narrator made a grave tactical error at this point when she told the audience gaily. "In this scene, each girl is with her very best beau...
...They cut through solid marble to make his grave, and yet a little tombstone they put above him was from Vermont. They buried him in the heart of a pine forest, and yet the pine coffin was imported from Cincinnati. They buried him within touch of an iron mine, and yet the nails in his coffin and the iron in the shovel that dug his grave were imported from Pittsburgh. They buried him by the side of the best sheep-grazing country on the earth and yet the wool in the coffin bands and the coffin bands themselves were brought...
...fired from the Digest. One man in the London office was reluctantly let go only after he had failed to show up for eight weeks. The Wallaces, being childless, have no desire to accumulate great wealth. "The dead," Wallace is fond of saying, "carry with them to the grave in their clutched hands only that which they have given away." His father lived to be 90, and at 62, Wallace is going strong. But in preparation for the day their turn comes, he and Lila are gradually turning over their stock to a charitable