Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Berlin rooms are scarce. Last week a squabble over the 600 rooms became, through a combination of U.S. bumbling and Soviet truculence, a grave international crisis...
...Stood respectfully at Arlington National Cemetery as a caisson slowly carried the flag-draped casket of his friend, General of the Army Hap Arnold, off through the snow to a grave near John J. Pershing...
This decision was a grave ideological error. Within hours, they were denounced by Ceylon's Communist central committee and suspended from the party...
...purpose of exercise and recreation . . But it is difficult to reconcile prizefighting, as we have it today, with Catholic principles of morality. For, undoubtedly, the purpose of the fighters is to deal each other severe blows, and if possible to score a 'knock-out.' That grave injuries frequently come to those who follow prizefighting as a career is well known from experience...
...Shiner's grave occurs a scene to raise a lump in the gullet of the steeliest projection machine. Snowy potters about, planting flowers, leaving a cross and "a glass dome, full of waxen flowers and fruit, with a marble scroll curling through the flowers, and SHINER, in fine long letters cut in it." He takes pictures of the grave, "and a heat of grief bit into him." He looks up, past "doves flying white in the blue," and prays, "Oy, you want to watch out. There ain't all that many of 'em. Please. Look after...