Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spring of 1949, the Catholic Church deprived Fr. Feeney of his priestly functions. Archbishop Richard Cushing stated in a decree that Fr. Feeney committed a "grave offense against the laws of the Catholic Church." Specifically, he was dismissed for preaching that there is no salvation outside the Church. After this, he continued at St. Benedict's, drawing large crowds of students and local people...
...local doctors looked grave and thoughtful. Her condition, they told her, was caused by an ovarian cyst that had grown to improbable size. Cysts can be removed, but Mrs. Levandowski also had a bad heart, they said. She could not stand an operation...
...press promptly burst into a chorus of high-minded admonishment. Editorialists, in their best voice-of-reason tones, reproved the hasty Connally; readers wrote grave letters of warning to editors; Communists crowed. Columnist Walter Lippmann exhorted with heavy passion: "We can not, we must not stoop to it ... For it would illustrate too dramatically the propaganda of our enemies -namely, that American philanthropy undermines the independence of the nations which accept...
...nine, Rab was taken out of the little parish school and put to work on the farm. When he died at 37, it was the rheumatic heart acquired in youth not drink, that killed him. He once described his life as "an uphill gallop from the cradle to the grave...
Psychologist Wilson, now a professor at Los Angeles State College, sees no grave faults with the liberties allowed prisoners in his day at Fort Leavenworth. Drug addicts, he feels, are not so much criminals as neurotics who belong in hospitals. He writes of his cons with affection, and it is plain that he won theirs. When his assignment ended, they tried to offer him a choice of profitable jobs through their underworld connections. In his garage, a few days before he left, he found a brand-new car in place of his wobbly old one. When he refused it with...