Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...told the group there is "a grave necessity for you to become practitioners to enforce the rights of blacks and to act as accessible, as well as conceptual, role models for black children...
...calf was shot and disposed of in the same manner, then another and another, until by midafternoon almost 300 head had been destroyed and piled in the pit. The day's last kill was a sackful of ten-day-old piglets; they were shot and dumped into the grave...
Raspberry seems to underestimate the awe with which Americans tend to treat the subject of death, as well as their capacity to drop grudges at the grave side. He raises an interesting question about whether the Ford White House has considered the nature of a possible Nixon funeral. But it is hardly a query crying out for an answer. What does need answering, in journalistic terms, is why Raspberry-and the editors who published his column-displayed such poor taste in speculating on the funeral of someone seriously...
Revenge of the Dragon marks Lee's last appearance as star-director-writer, but audiences hoot and holler: there is no sign of the grave respect customarily due a last work. The film follows much the same plot, includes most of the same scenes as any other Lee movie. His fans seem to accept it all as reassuring evidence that, as one ubiquitous T shirt proclaims, BRUCE LEE LIVES...
Since Airport 1975 is a sequel to Airport, with its patented formula-panic in the skies, dither on the ground-it is reasonable to assume that the passengers on this Columbia Airlines 747 are going to find themselves in grave peril...