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Word: gravely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taken part in the kidnaping, but the son had fled to the north with the Communist troops. At Diem's urging, the old man was sent north in secret to find his son. He came back a few months later with a sketch locating the grave, but when Diem's coolies began digging, they found only the bones of dead water buffaloes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Wanderer's Rest | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

...scene of the digging and told the authorities: "I have tuberculosis, and I'm going to die. Now I can tell the truth." Showing how the stream of the irrigation ditch into which Khoi's body was dumped had changed its course, he pointed out the real grave. Twelve feet deep, the diggers found the bodies of Khoi and his son, easily identified by a set of gold teeth and a belt buckle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Wanderer's Rest | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

...mystery of reincarnation, she is now Mrs. Ruth Simmons, wife of a Pueblo auto dealer. Stretched out on a couch in a deep trance, with witnesses aplenty and a tape recorder taking it all down, Bridey-Ruth under hypnosis answered a few questions about life beyond the grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death Ain't Got No Sting | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...months later, at 35, he was dead. As it was a stormy day, no one followed him to his pauper's grave in Vienna, and to this day nobody knows just where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Life of a Genius | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...dangerous as socialism and the Russian experiment may be for mankind, allies and defenders for them have been found everywhere among intellectuals. The same is not true of freedom and the American experiment. This is a very serious situation, serious in view of the destiny of man, and so grave that one wonders . . . whether the world's intellectuals have not already cast their vote against freedom . . . "If the American intellectual were clearly aware of the reservoir of hope which his country represents for the entire world, would he not carry his country's conception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Challenge to Intellectuals | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

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