Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DISTINGUISHED GROUP IN YOUR "NEW MILLIONAIRES" ARTICLE [DEC. 27], BUT AM DESPERATELY ANXIOUS YOUR READERS KNOW THAT I NEITHER APPRAISE THE FAMILY PURSE NOR MAKE PUBLIC PRONOUNCEMENT AS TO ITS DIMENSIONS [TIME'S appraisal: $50 million]. MY FRIENDS SHUN ME AND MY ENGLISH PROFESSOR TURNS OVER IN HIS GRAVE AT THE SIGHT OF THAT AWFUL QUOTE "I'VE GOT SO MANY BUCKS TO PROVE...
...organized, drove off to Milledgeville penitentiary, where Frank was imprisoned. Brandishing guns, they forced their way inside and dragged Leo Frank from his bed. Then they drove the 150 miles back to Marietta and hanged Leo Frank from a pine tree near Mary Phagan's lonely grave...
...Figueres. His representative to the Organization of American States in Washington charged that an attack on Costa Rica by exiles and irregulars was staged and ready to go from bases in Nicaragua. He called for an emergency meeting of the hemisphere's foreign ministers to check "a grave situation." The O.A.S. Council planned to meet at once to act on Figueres' request...
...sport coat and a jut-jawed aggressiveness. This action is marked by an exchange of witticisms which in places would hardly do credit to a reform school stag. For authors Theodore Hirsch and Jeanette Patton, this may be high comedy. More nearly, it is a wake over comedy's grave...
...modern U.S. preoccupation with the female bust. Anthropologists and sociologists have already tackled this question as it concerns the male. But Dr. Goodrich C. Schauffler, who teaches at the University of Oregon and practices in Portland, told a Chicago congress on gynecology and obstetrics that it has grave medical effects on the female...