Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...historian Livy described as filling earth and sea, predates Roman civilization, and is now one of the favorite quests of archaeologists. But authorized diggers frequently find that robbers have got there first. And even with the new watch, the thefts continued. One enterprising youth rode up to a grave with his girl on a motor scooter for a "picnic," rode off with 13 objects worth...
...Cigar Disguise. Etruscan grave robbing is now thought to involve a network of 200 thieves, 25 middlemen and a dozen fences. Last year the government's special contraband corps arrested 89 looters. Not realizing that much of the booty is stolen, and some faked, Americans bought 85% of the Etruscan objects in respectable-looking shops. Customs officers, traditionally easygoing with American tourists, let them pass. "Americans could walk out of Italy with the Colosseum," complained one contraband officer. But last month frontier customs guards caught an Austrian carrying a vase dating from the 6th century...
...klieg lights. Calhoun and his bride defied the A.A.U., as Floor Manager Mike Graham threw the cues. The congregation included about 25 tieless stagehands, a bewildered assortment of curiosity seekers, and 3,000,000 enraptured housewives. To the best man, the M.C. muttered: "Nervous or not, you have one grave responsibility. Here are two beautiful Keepsake wedding rings...
Archbishop Rummel declined to comment. But in Rome a Vatican spokesman quickly slapped down the letter as "a grave error." Apart from the fact that the New Orleans group committed a breach of discipline in making public an appeal over the authority of their archbishop, they should have known that the Holy See is unalterably opposed to all forms of racial discrimination and that it has interpreted segregation as discrimination. "It is utterly disquieting," said a member of the Holy Office, "that there should be Catholics so ignorant of Christian doctrine and fundamentals. The only charitable view one can place...
...faster, better and more cheaply than its old equipment, then being used by the British, French and Russians. Even more important were the thousands of Krupp workers whose loyalty to the firm drove them to frenzied efforts to rebuild. This "Kruppianer spirit" was the fruit of a cradle-to-grave system of social security started by the company more than 100 years ago. Now it owns housing space for 12,000 families, builds new houses at the rate of 500 a year. For nearly every active Krupp worker, there is a retired worker drawing a healthy company pension. Krupp runs...