Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...playing golf. He washed and waxed the car. Then his wife and three children piled into it for the drive up the Hudson River valley to Troy, where they were going to spend a week with his parents. On the way, they stopped at Hyde Park and saw the grave of the nation's most famed polio victim. It was the polio season, but the Kidders felt only the vague concern that all parents have for their youngsters...
Last week, an honored veteran of nine years, Momi sickened and died. A queue of sad-eyed Milanese railroadmen filed past the little mound of earth over her grave. "She was a cat of cats," said one of Momi's old bosses, now head of the Station Vehicle Section. "She will have a place here as long as the trains...
What the Congressmen ought to investigate and expose is the number of teachers terrified of purges and investigations, of men who cower and bootlick and teach less than they know because they are in grave danger of losing their jobs if anybody so much as points an accusing finger at them. When teachers start to withhold knowledge it is about time for students to stop going to school...
...grave," says Thornton Wilder, "they will write: 'Here lies a man who tried to be obliging.' " And he gives a nervous bark of laughter-the laugh, slightly louder than the occasion warrants, of a man accustomed to putting strangers at their ease...
Russell Reading Braddon, an artillery gunner with Australia's 8th Division, spent his 21st birthday with both feet in a grave. It was early 1942, and he had been captured by the Japanese as they slithered through Malaya like lizards, chewing up the paper-thin defenses of Britain's "naked island" fortress, Singapore. Singapore fell, but Gunner Braddon lived, not to fight but to write another day. The result is a gutty, scalp-raising account of the "war of capitulation" in Southeast Asia, and the best book of its kind since F. Spencer Chapman's The Jungle...