Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will be elected directly every five years, and in a Council of Ministers appointed by him. Although an elected Parliament can pass legislation, the President has veto power and can dissolve Parliament indefinitely. Parliament may remove the President, however, by a three-fourths vote "for violating the constitution or grave misconduct" as well as for physical or mental Incapacity. The amendment also empowers Mujib to set up a single "national party," thus shutting off any political opposition...
...negligent bureaucracy is a tragedy well-known to few. His wounds have only been salted by Ron Davis's Crimson article of Jan. 29, which seemingly was written without Isaac's foreknowledge. Ostensibly, Professor Isaac's wish is to remain out of the public eye. But the grave injustice being done him can not escape the recognition of those who care...
...nurtured a beloved and burgeoning board of art works. The dedicated scholar or the graduate student in Harvard's Museum Course who was invited to the house at 15 East 81st Street would have been ushered into the still and rarefied atmosphere of a crowded private gallery by a grave and reserved Victorian gentleman, his dignified features adorned by a shining pince-nez perched above a neatly dressed moustache and small beard...
...scenery. The Third Man is a film in which the detective story remains entirely secondary. Holly Martins is just as much the naive American in need of protection at the end of the film as at the beginning; as Harry Lime, played by Orson Welles, is lowered into his grave for the second time you feel as if he might at any time reappear, stepping out of the shadows with a silent step more frightening than any sudden gunshot--it's more frightening when the unexpected body you discover is live. The ferris wheel in the Prater will never stop...
...charge of manslaughter, however, is apparently a grave enough touch of atmosphere for the defendant Edelin, and his defense has made a concerted effort to gain an acquittal despite a surprising agreement with the prosecution on the facts of the case...