Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...following with his co-sponsorship of the 1968 McGovern-Hatfield resolution calling for an end to the war. Though unsuccessful, the legislation occasioned a rare flash of fire from the quiet man. "Every Senator in this chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave," McGovern fumed. "This chamber reeks of blood!" When Robert Kennedy was assassinated, McGovern sought to keep Bobby's antiwar supporters together by entering the race in his stead less than three weeks before the 1968 convention. Though he polled only 1461 of the 2,622 delegate votes, the effort...
...King Tutankhamen. Nefertiti is a limestone bust, Tutankhamen a treasure. Nothing in his reign, which began around 1361 B.C., when he was ten, and ended with his death at 18, could have secured immortality for this shadowy boy-king. King Tut owes his fame to the accident that grave robbers never looted his tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. It remained intact until Nov. 26,1922, when an English archaeologist named Howard Carter chipped through a door at the end of a rubble-filled passage and thrust a candle into the darkness beyond. "Do you see anything...
Freeman stressed that despite grave differences in principle and policy, a common ground was established between the two nations...
...spokesman of the Foreign Ministry Information Department in Peking said that both the removal of Liao Ho-shu to the U.S. and American hostility to China show that "U.S. President Nixon and his predecessor Johnson are jackals of the same lair without the least difference." The spokesman also threatened "grave consequences" should Liao not be handed back to China. On February 19, the spokesman announced Peking's cancellation of the Warsaw talks without setting a date for a future meeting...
THAT WHIRRING NOISE you hear is Kurt Weill spinning in his grave. When he and Bertolt Brecht wrote Threepenny Opera, Happy End, and Mahagonny, they never dreamed that their operas would be performed in the ballroom of the Somerset Hotel, in front of a group of Scotch-sipping, fur-clad, overstuffed suburbanites. The producers of September Song have done to Weill exactly what Brecht complained had been done to Billy's Bawd House in Balbao: "They've made it bourgeois...