Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What grave misdeed had they done? They had been found guilty of smashing the windows of a barber shop, a gas station and two unoccupied autos with BBs fired from slingshots and of dropping balloons filled with water from a fifth story onto passing cars. It was precisely the boyishness of the offenses that disturbed city officials. Said Chenoweth: "It would have been more understandable if they had done something serious. You know, you expect a cop to go crooked." But is there not a little room for rejoicing that, at least in Des Moines, when a few policemen stray...
...Adolf Hitler speaking from his grave? No, but close enough. Those words were spoken in an interview for Dutch television-and they came from Belgium's leading Nazi collaborator in World War II. Of Léon Degrelle, the speaker, who had been a Belgian right-wing politician in the 1930s, Hitler once reportedly said: "If I had a son, I would want him to be like Degrelle...
...Disney forest (Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks). They have cleared away plenty of room for lyrical reflections on such matters as existence ("Man's gotta be what he's born to be") and mortality ("Sooner or later, just like a patater, man's planted in his grave"). They even empty Tom's whitewash pot of its humor and fill it with one of their characteristically neologistic songs, Gratification-which is not exactly supercalifragilisticexpialidocious...
...weeks before he died in 1961 at age 36, he received the first copies of his last and most revolutionary book, The Wretched of the Earth. The FLN had his body flown to Tunis and buried him with honors in Algerian soil, while a CIA agent stood by his grave...
there, beyond the grave, we shall say that we have...