Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China has been and now is training, equipping and supplying the Communist forces in Indo-China. There is the risk that, as in Korea, Red China might send its own army into Indo-China. The Chinese Communist regime should realize that such a second aggression could not occur without grave consequences which might not be confined to Indo-China. I say this soberly, in the interest of peace...
Next day the Nazis invaded The Netherlands. It was a weird, unreal world in which Audrey, the gay-grave dreamer of fairy tales, found herself: a world where terror lurked in every shadow and neighbors could disappear overnight. Audrey's own uncle, a prominent lawyer in Arnhem, was one of the first victims of Nazi "discipline." He was shot as one of six hostages in retaliation for a plot to blow up a German train. Audrey's cousin, an adjutant at the royal court, was also executed...
...release German war prisoners guilty of "minor" crimes. West Germans say the Russians still hold 90,000 to 100,000 German P.W.s. Russia admits to holding only 13,500, of which 9,700 are accused of "grave" war crimes...
They went through Dante's house and discussed the Inferno. Then one of the women insisted on visiting Elizabeth Barrett Browning's grave, which was not on the official agenda at all. In Ferney, on the French-Swiss border, they saw Voltaire's chateau and talked about Candide. In Augsburg, a Lutheran pastor who spoke no English gave them a lecture on the Reformation, and they tried but failed to get into the monastery where Luther once lived. Next on the list was Faust, but since Weimar is behind the Iron Curtain, they had to settle...
...murder did not stay hidden long, and one day the sheriff came around to the Lewis place. Found out, the boys agreed to kill each other with pistols as they stood over their mother's grave. Isham did his part, and Lilburn went down dying. But Lilburn failed to kill his brother. Isham, unscratched, was tried, convicted and sentenced to hang. Instead, he broke out of jail, and later the rumor went that he was killed in New Orleans, fighting against the British under Andy Jackson...