Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British at the Battle of Cowpens on Jan. 17, 1781. Cowpens, which celebrates Jan. 17 as the rest of the U.S. celebrates the Fourth of July, claimed that Winchester was not doing right by their hero. In Winchester, they charged, there is only a battered old slab over his grave...
...Moseley spoke bitterly of the condition of General Morgan's grave. "It could be any grave," he said. "And those six soldiers they said surrounded the general. Where are they? I don't see them anywhere around the general. They're way over in another part of the cemetery...
...House's questions, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Ernest Davies replied in effect: the government is not preventing anybody from leaving the country-it is just taking back some passports, which are government property. "[Such] withdrawal of a passport might constitute a grave reflection on a person's character," insisted Tory Godfrey Nicholson...
...morning coat or resplendent uniform were ranged along one side of the crowded chamber in Brussels' Parliament (designed for only 200 deputies, it was crammed with 1,000 guests). At the ministers' left sat the diplomatic corps, to the right were Belgium's top justices, grave in fur-trimmed gowns. Next to them were Senators and Representatives. Under a huge red velvet canopy stood the throne of Belgium, a formidable chair-newly gilded and fitted with red upholstery-which had been lugged down from the Parliament building's attic...
Peace, if it comes, will not find the tall poplars that once lined every Korean highway-they have been chopped up for firewood. In their place the roads are hedged with the vegetation of war-gutted tanks, charred vehicles, abandoned guns, an occasional hastily dug grave...