Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commend Harvard for reasserting its traditional responsibilities at BCH. Harvard's decision not to withdraw immediately will safeguard the hospital's daily operations. Any other decision by Harvard, regardless of its long-term intentions, would be grave disservice to current Boston health care needs. We recommend that B.U. activity seek to maintain Harvard's and Tufts's current levels of activity...
...namesake must be turing in his grave, corkscrew fashion, with that logic. Alice Lewis Carroll
...have coexisted quite happily, in some cases (as in Victorian England) growing at the same time? Until ten years or so ago, every democratic country had a considerable degree of art censorship. Was, for example, the England of ten years ago an unfree country? Was political freedom there in grave danger because certain movies available in Gaullist France could not be shown...
Indeed it had been. A group of grave robbers-who apparently crossed the Bay of Biscay to the He d'Yeu by auto ferry-had spirited away the coffin containing the body of Marshal Philippe Petain, who was revered by Frenchmen for stopping the Germans at Verdun during World War I and later reviled for heading the collaborationist Vichy government during World...
...furor began when the New York Times, advancing further in its holy war against the Met, charged that the vase was booty dug up by grave robbers at an Etruscan site north of Rome in 1971 and illegally sold to an expatriate American named Robert E. Hecht Jr. He in turn, so the story went, smuggled the vase out of Italy and sold it to the Met. In 1970 UNESCO adopted a draft prohibiting illicit traffic in art objects. The calyx krater would come under that provision, and both the U.S. and Italy have signed the pact...