Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every wish that I meant to save Wilt like roses, Roses on my grave. And I wonder, Oh, I wonder, Was I ever really brave...
Population growth1% a year in the U.S.; 2% in the world as a whole-is undeniably a problem. But despite the cries of alarm, it is considerably less clear just what the problem is, how grave it is, and what should be done about it. It does seem safe to say, though, that the great famine is by no means inevitable...
...Special Page. George Jackson's death and the accusations that followed pose the challenge to the American penal system that Jackson sought to make in life. "There will be a special page in the book of life for the men who have crawled back from the grave," he wrote his mother in 1966. To Jackson the grave was the life of black people in a racist society, the prison a kind of cemetery for the not yet dead, and the journey back from both could only be made through violent revolution. "All the gentle, shy characteristics of the black...
...Consumer Reports, after testing windowed 1971 version of the most popular vans, says in its August issue that it has "grave doubts" about their safety, citing in particular the lack of protection for occupants involved in front-end crashes...
GOVERNMENT SPENDING CUTS. Alan Greenspan argues that "the $4.7 billion reduction in this fiscal year's budget and the one-year delay in the welfare bill are the most important moves in the longer run. If we do not reduce our huge deficits, we will have grave difficulties controlling inflation." To that contention David Grove adds: "Instead of the cuts, I would have preferred more fiscal stimulation. The reductions were mainly a political maneuver, to show that everybody has to sacrifice. President Nixon was saying, 'See, we are making cuts...