Word: graven
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...proud, solemn black men advanced through the murmuring chamber to take their new-won seats. Carrying themselves with graven dignity, often combining ritual facial scars with impeccable European manners, they came from lands of jungle and desert whose very names were scarcely known to the West-Chad, Gabon, Dahomey, Upper Volta. The headlines went to Dwight Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro. But in the sweep of history, the 15th U.N. Assembly might be regarded as the time of the Africans...
...pieces on five acres of imaginatively landscaped grounds adjoining the museum in Jerusalem. But opposition to the gift soon came from Israels' ultra-Orthodox Agudat Israel Party, which protested that the planned display would be a profane violation of the Old Testament's canons against graven images. Pressured to withdraw the gift or shift the sculpture display to a city of less religious importance for Orthodox Jews, Rose threatened that unless the sculpture goes to Jerusalem as planned, he will cut off all of his gifts to Israel. But some Talmudic scholars sided with Rose, quoted Leviticus...
...garments, which left only hands and face exposed to the air. The rabbi walked down the gangplank supported by two of the Israeli policemen that he recently compared to "Hitler's Gestapo." When photographers tried to take pictures, Teitelbaum covered himself, mumbled, "Thou shalt not make unto thee graven images...
...civil servant. Disheartened at flunking exams, and already possessed of fragments of Christianity, he fell ill and went into a 40-day trance. During the trance, he saw visions, and later declared that he had talked with God and been ordained to rule China. Hung threw the graven tablet commemorating Confucius out of his classroom. The act brought immediate dismissal as a teacher. After Hung converted his best friend, the pair began proselytizing in Kwangsi province...
...grand but tidy was the Maine publishing empire Guy P. Gannett built. They were Guy's five papers,* no mistake; his flinty Republicanism, his bedrock conviction that heavy advertisers deserved to make news, were graven into every issue. Five years ago, when Gannett died and the chain passed to his daughter, a handsome divorcee of 30 and mother of three boys, most old subscribers reckoned that the reign in Maine would never be the same again...