Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Merit at the White House dinner for Queen Elizabeth? Isn't being President of the United States enough distinction for him? Then what's he doing wearing this dog tag from the late George VI? If George Washington heard about this, he would turn over in his grave-and Abraham Lincoln...
...only were Hungarians forbidden to demonstrate; they were forbidden to mourn. They were warned not to wear arm bands or to display candles in their windows. Secret police even knocked on the doors of birthday parties. Heavy chains were hung across the gate of the Magyarovar grave site of fallen Freedom Fighters. All Budapest dared to do was to boycott all cafés, cinemas and places of entertainment...
...year-old girl was dragged into the bush near Dodoma, killed, disemboweled and dissected. Soon afterward, local justice learned the reason. A native woman had a grudge against her son because he had thrown her second husband's bow and arrows out of his hut (a grave insult). With the support of her sister, she sent a messenger to hire a lionman from a.sorcerer in the next village. "It was a human being," the messenger told the court, "and it was a woman. It walked like a dog and it sat like a dog. Its head was like...
...great human being who exemplifies principles the world sorely needs-the spirit of friendly scientific inquiry, and the peaceful use of the atom for the satisfaction of human needs." Replied Bohr: "The rapid advance of science and technology in our age, which involves such bright promises and grave dangers, presents civilization with a most serious challenge. To meet this challenge . . . the road is indicated by that worldwide cooperation which has manifested itself through the ages in the development of science...
What the excavators found was a looted grave, so despoiled (probably by the Saracens in 846) that much of it was a featureless hole. There was no trace of the bronze casket in which tradition said Constantine had placed St. Peter's relics. All that remained, buried at the rear of the grave niche, were a few bones. The Vatican has said only that they are human, that there is no skull among them, and that they are those of a powerfully built person of advanced age but undetermined sex. With this intriguing information −pending further Vatican disclosures...