Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heroes, like Hudson River shad, are a notably perishable commodity; no matter how brightly they may gleam when they are hauled into public view, they have a disconcerting tendency to spoil if they are left in the sun. Those who do not go gracefully to an early grave often fall easy prey to baldness, fallen arches and the horrors of earning a living. Even if they avoid relief rolls, and skid-road bars, they are still apt to end up squirting old ladies with water pistols at American Legion conventions...
Naked & Alone. Washington's Mount Adams was his first love and "its memory has been the most haunting of all." At five, young Douglas was standing choked with tears at the new grave of his father, a Presbyterian minister, when he happened to notice mighty Mount Adams (elev. 12,307 ft.) in the distance. His tears stopped; from that moment "Adams subtly became a force for me to tie to, a symbol of stability and strength...
...intend to disparage the persons your sports editor selected, but it certainly casts grave doubts on his competency when virtually all players in the league that I have spoken to were amazed at the selections...
...weeks ago, Pakistan's Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan and India's Jawaharlal Nehru were hurling threats of war at each other. This week, the Pakistan-India crisis had grown so grave that it was no longer possible for responsible men to talk carelessly. The Prime Ministers were meeting in New Delhi "in the hope," said Liaquat Ali Khan, "that we shall, with our united efforts . . . remove all misunderstandings which have created tension between our two countries...
Frater Felix Fabri, a Dominican, was born in Zurich about 1441, of a well-to-do family named Schmidt. He was a jolly friar, and he "dared, among great things and true, grave things and holy, to mingle things silly, improbable, and comical" with such gusto that a reader may sometimes think he has strayed into a company bound for Canterbury...