Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is the practical point of all this? Says Selwyn: "Unless [outside] businessmen can come to understand fully Continental attitudes and customs, they will be at a grave disadvantage." Specifically, he suggests, hire Dutch salesmen, but beware of Italian accountants or Belgian chauffeurs...
...authorities agreed to drop all charges against the baroness, and they even provided a coffin for her husband. Then new problems kept arising. Grave diggers who came to prepare the baron's final resting place were driven off by a swarm of bees...
...beginning of Big Foot Trail, some 45 miles west of Wounded Knee, S.D., a yellow, slightly faded billboard stands frozen against the bleak Dakota horizon. "45 miles to Wounded Knee," the billboard screams. "The historic site and mass grave of the last battle between the Indian and the white...
Wounded Knee may be short on buildings, but it is long on symbolism. The tiny hamlet was the site of the 1890 massacre, when the U.S. cavalry slaughtered over 200 Indians. The Indians killed in this battle are buried in a mass grave, located behind the Sacred Heart Catholic Church...
...grave, a stone marker commemorates the dead Indians. To the white man, the mass grave is a tourist attraction, but to the Indian, it represents a culture that has almost faded away...