Word: gravely
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...prospect of reaching a formal peace treaty on the Korean peninsula took a major step backwards today after North Korean soldiers exchanged heavy gunfire with South Korean troops. North Korean officials said several of its soldiers were wounded in the shoot-out and accused the south of committing a "grave armed provocative act." South Korea, which reported no casualties, fired back, saying the skirmish was an "intentional provocation" by North Korea. South Korean military officials said its border guards discovered a small group of North Korean troops on the south side of the demilitarized zone and ordered them to pull...
Images keep recurring, crisscrossing, gaining new associations in verses that have the noble radiance of stained glass, grave but full of light. In his twilight hours, the poet often berates himself for not having hymned the "unrelenting mercy of light" and the "shallows' scriptures" of his native St. Lucia as he should. In the end, however, he realizes that what has sustained him all along are the "immortelle" and "wild mammy-apple" of his "generous Eden." As the waves of his melodious argument wash up at last on the shores of thanksgiving and affirmation, one realizes that there...
...tantamount to a rogue industry's confession of decades of malfeasance, misfeasance and nonfeasance. True, most smokers have grasped that they were flirting with grave health consequences, but their awareness owed no thanks to the industry. Its Council for Tobacco Research and in-house scientists failed to undertake serious, sustained inquiry into the causal links between smoking and disease formation (no doubt out of fear that what they might find would put them out of business). Its Tobacco Institute picked apart every new Surgeon General's report and trivialized the damning findings of dedicated independent public-health investigators...
What Wolf really craves is a world devoid of youthful indiscretion. Yet she never spells out what grave long-term consequences her "characters" suffered as a result of their regrettable experiments. Indeed, she does not flesh out what their lives are like today. From the sketchy information she provides, we can only assume that most, like the author, are well-adjusted married young women with toddlers and patios...
...College's representatives on the board said that the proposal which the trustees passed would have grave consequences for the student organization, if PBHA decides to implement...