Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...calculating bridegroom looks on a marriage ceremony: It would be easier to elope, but what would everybody say? When asked why the meeting was being held at all, Pompidou justified it on the "negative" basis that "not to hold it would be an act with grave consequences." He added, with scarcely more enthusiasm, "I hope that when we are all around the table, a European flame will glow a little brighter, and France will not seek to extinguish...
...late Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev; on July 14. Once a student of law and journalism, Yelena was the youngest of Khrushchev's five children. Her death was unreported in Russia, but her tombstone was discovered by a sharp-eyed American official visiting her father's grave. She is buried near him in Moscow's Novodyevichy Cemetery...
...great men, but those who knew they must do something and did. Colonel "Gaspar" explains that he didn't like the Germans eating French beef when he had none, Emmanuel D' Astier de la Vigerie merely that he had to do something, and the same with the Grave brothers. Denis Rake, an English secret agent, very simply states that as a homosexual he wanted to prove that he could do what other men were supposed to do. "I really don't know...It was my duty if I could help, that...
...Resistance refer to themselves as black sheep, outlaws. Their neighbors treated them as such, the Graves claim. They were dismissed as terrorists, then, when the Liberation came, as profiteers. D'Asteir de la Vigerie cherishes it as the one time he lived in a classless society because they were all outside society. Grave recalls that at the first gathering of what became the Resistance, they sang "The Internationale." "We had to sing something, and the Petainists had "The Marseillaise...
...ultimate goal while proclaiming one's own prejudices as morality is bad enough without varying those prejudices from day to day. McGovern's every statement is couched in moral terms; those who oppose him are evil. Such extremism tends to breed a volatile situation which makes grave excesses of power possible. A McGovern Administration would put the American regime in jeopardy, a very sad prospect when we stop to ponder the likely alternatives...