Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bombers and three F47 fighters swooped down on the hamlet of Purial de Pilon a few days after some rebels passed through, strafing and bombing it for 25 minutes; 40 of the 400 townspeople were killed, including 17 women and children who were later buried in a common grave. In Dos Bocas de Cordero, Batista's airmen killed 15 villagers (and eight cows). Planes machine-gunned a peasant's funeral, apparently mistaking the single file of mourners for rebels. The government put a price of $100,000 on Castro's head and sent...
Unless Constantine wished to mark the exact spot of a very holy place, argue the authors, he would not have gone to such enormous trouble, since level sites unencumbered by tombs lay close by. Clearly, the argument runs. Constantine wanted this location because he believed he was enshrining the grave of St. Peter...
...nested in the exterior wall of a sloping corridor, the Clivus (meaning slope). The authors' theory is that, while laying this wall (called the Red Wall) in the area where St. Peter was known to have been buried, the builders found what was believed to be his grave, and the reigning Pope (probably Anicetus) ordered that a shrine be incorporated in the wall. No other theory, runs the argument, explains why the builders weakened the Red Wall by leaving a gap in its foundations wide enough for a grave, or why they cut two upper niches into its surface...
Bones & Devotion. Whatever it contained, the Aedicula was revered throughout the 1,200-year life of Constantine's church, and became the heart of the present cathedral, underneath the twisting columns and great bronze canopy of Bernini. By the time Vatican archaeologists, burrowing from below, entered the subsurface grave, the shrine had been altered almost beyond recognition: the two upper niches had been combined to form the present Niche of the Pallia, two small chapels, the Covered and Open Confessio, had been added, and the whole shrine was encased by the present high altar...
President Eisenhower is making a grave mistake if he imagines only America's enemies and "borderline" friends are being further alienated by the Little Rock integration crisis. How do you imagine your staunchest friends feel about all this? The people here are unanimous in their expressions of horror, disgust and disillusionment...