Word: graven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history of the war is all too painfully graven in false optimism. Again and again, U.S. hopes have been raised by officials armed with gleaming statistics and pollyanna rhetoric. First the U.S. "turned the corner" in Viet Nam; then there was "light at the end of the tunnel," "the enemy was on the run," and the attrition rates, the kill ratios, and all the other jargon of victory rolled on and on. Since they have been proved wrong so often in the past, U.S. experts are careful not to parade their latest positive assessments; indeed...
...Numberless are the world's wonders, but none more wonderful than man; the storm-grey sea yields to his prows, the huge crests bear him high; earth, holy and inexhaustible, is graven with shining furrows where his plows have gone . . ." (Antigone...
Those words of Czechoslovakia's national hero, Jan Hus, are en graved on the base of his statue in Prague. Last week, as Soviet tanks clanked into the capital, someone limned the graven letters in red chalk so that they stood out sharply on the grey granite. The words were spoken 550 years ago, at a time when the Bo hemians, who now are known as Czechs, were trying to win a measure of re ligious and national autonomy within the Holy Roman Empire. But they remain a poignant reminder of a de termined people's long search for freedom...
...With the graven mien of a frontier gambler who has peeked at his opponent's hole card, the Arkansas Democrat has stood pat against Lyndon Johnson - himself the master emeritus of Capitol Hill poker - matching imperturbably the President's wiles, threats and blandishments for 1 6 weary months...
...Where You From?" Romney, jaunting from mess hall to hospital ward, shook hands with hundreds and passed out countless Michigan-state medallions graven with his name. But he often seemed more like a thoughtless than a thoughtful candidate. At the military hospital at Danang, he marched under the glare of television lights into a ward for seriously wounded U.S. servicemen. He glad-handed one Marine and asked: "Where are you from?" but the soldier could not answer because he had a tracheotomy tube protruding from his throat. "Where were you injured?" the Governor asked another patient, whose bleeding neck...