Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reject the idea of government aid for the young and the old. "Security from the cradle to about 18 or 20 years of age, and from about 65 to the grave," he said, "has always been sacred to the American people." But the middle group (20 to 65) "can find its own security only in a free but tough system of risk and self-reliance. It can be destroyed by taxes and the four mixed drinks...
Next day Big Ed Johnson rose in the Senate to announce a reprieve. He was postponing the hearings on his bill before his own Interstate Commerce Committee. His visitors, he said, had assured him of their "grave concern" over the commercial exploitation of movie performers' immorality, and they planned to put a stop to it with a "stringent amendment" to their advertising code. Big Ed was willing "to permit this to be done voluntarily and effectively...
...Martin Block's Make-Believe Ballroom, on which Disc Jockey Block presents new records, plays request numbers. Typical recent request from "Alex," a listener in Switzerland: play some bop. Block's grave answer: "Alex, did you know that bop is on its way out? . . .Did you know that Dizzy Gillespie has given up bop?" Block then played one of Gillespie's post-bop numbers entitled You Stole My Wife-You Horse Thief...
...beginning he was 16 million. He was the U.S. Army and its Air Forces; he was the Navy, the Marines and the Coast Guard, outward bound for battle in World War II. Then he was the 400,000 U.S. dead, and later-as overseas grave-registration teams sifted out fragments of identifications-he was the 8,000 unidentifiable...
...lecture, delivered by Dr. Charles O'Malley, was titled The Life and Times of Andreas Vesalius, the medieval anatomist (1514-64) who was one of the foremost grave robbers of his day. In 1543, at the age of 28, he shocked the scientific world with his great work, De Humani Carporis Fabrica, which detailed the construction of the human body and scornfully exploded some superstitions...