Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...retired to University Hall, threatening militant action, Bok agreed to meet that evening with their representatives. Although he remained silent at the meeting on any of the substantive issues, he issued a statement later that night which said: "There is no question in my mind that Portugal has inflicted grave wrongs on Black people in Angola and Mozambique...
...statement is sincere, we must assume from it that he will use whatever influence Harvard has to deny the Portuguese Colonialists their means of furthering those "grave wrongs...
...There is no question in my mind that Portugal has inflicted grave wrongs on Black people in Angola and Mozambique. The question for Harvard to consider in the next few weeks is the most responsible position for Harvard to take as a shareholder in a company doing considerable business in those two countries...
...proposals themselves are reasonable enough. The question is whether they come too late to save the two Irelands from what Scholar-Diplomat Conor Cruise O'Brien describes as the threat of "a common ruin, a sort of unity in the grave." The prospects are not encouraging. Even during a week of what these days is relative calm in Ulster, eight men were killed, 42 were injured and 28 bombs exploded...
...translation. The American publishers have also neglected to alter Anglicisms that will baffle many U.S. readers - for example, "council flats" for public housing. Most of all, though, De Gaulle has simply not done himself justice. He writes: "Beyond all the or deals and obstacles, and perhaps be yond the grave, that which is legitimate may one day be legalized, that which is rightful may in the end be proved right." Events have already proved De Gaulle right about many things, but he has put too little of himself, right or wrong, into the final volume of his memoirs...