Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Allende had just been elected president of Chile. During the past four years, millions starved in Africa and Bangla Desh, more Vietnamese were dismembered by bombs made in Wisconsin's dairy hills, and the Chilean president who had quickened the hopes of his people was lowered into an unmarked grave in a Santiago cemetary...
...muttered ceaselessly of sanpaku--of the time when the whites of the eyes are visible beneath the iris. Sanpaku is supposed to indicate grave illness and a destined tragic end. Kim would drag herself as if on rickets to the bathroom mirror to examine her eyes. Her face looked glazed, her talk was high-wired, near frenzied with shame and self-doubt. And, not only for the sanpaku, but for the hair, yang of her body, therefore male and ugly, attributing the yangness to 22 years to meat-eating she stuck to the diet and clawed at the hair...
...Washington openly question the Senator's motives in pursuing his private investigation. They speculate that he may be making a subtle effort to rescue the Administration, perhaps by announcing on the eve of an impeachment vote in the House that the President had been right, and that grave matters of national security were, after all, inextricably intertwined with the Watergate affair. Baker maintains that he is simply trying to get to the bottom of the President's repeated assertions that the White House was anxious to limit the Watergate inquiry not to cover up wrongdoing within the Nixon...
...singularity of Isadora Persano, the journalist and duelist who was found stark mad with a matchbox in front of him that contained a remarkable worm, said to be unknown to science (The Problem of Thor Bridge). But never had there been a case as complex and fraught with such grave worldly consequences as The Case of the Strange Erasures...
...corny for the cosmopolitan frame of mind, or the confirmed cynic who demands perfection from himself, but Nickel Mountain leaves you feeling that there is an order to life. At the end of the book an old couple watch their son's coffin winched out of a grave. The woman shouts "I believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ." The man yells, "Shut up." In the solemn eyes of Henry Soames, where everything has some value, and you "don't shoot at everything that moves on the theory it might be a rattler," even this scene loses its farcical element...