Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impact-the death sentences meted out to two Jews in Leningrad were commuted and a second round of trials of Jews was postponed. Even so, foreign opinion can accomplish only so much. The problem is that Soviet Jews can do even less-unless they are willing to take grave risks. That point was dramatically illustrated last week when Amsterdam's daily De Telcgraaf arranged to telephone, in a still undisclosed manner, a Jewish family in Riga. Realizing that the KGB might well be recording the call, the paper's reporter asked: "Aren't you afraid they...
...later phase of the woman who issues an emancipation proclamation to her husband. The larky girlishness of the early Nora is always a bit of a problem, but Miss Bloom manages to be a trifle giddy without appearing inane. As the later Nora, her performance is informed with a grave clarity...
...York Times last week and is also appearing elsewhere, Gardner explained Cause's cause: "One of our aims will be to revitalize politics and government. The need is great. State governments are mostly feeble. City government is archaic. The Congress of the U.S. is in grave need of overhaul. The parties are becoming useless as instruments of the popular will." Gardner's initial attack is on those last two targets...
...Israel Exploration Journal, was "to cut the feet off and then remove the entire complex -nail, plaque of wood [which helped keep the feet in position] and feet -from the cross." Then, these severed parts were apparently immediately buried along with the rest of the body in a temporary grave; Jewish custom forbids long exposure after death. Subsequently, Yehohanan's remains were disinterred by friends or relatives and removed to their permanent resting place outside the city, where they lay undisturbed until...
...both the Leningrad and Burgos trials, deplored "certain judicial proceedings" that "contribute to a sense of anxiety, lamentation and uneasiness in the world." In Washington, Secretary of State William Rogers personally wrote to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko urging clemency, and the Senate unanimously passed a resolution expressing grave concern about injustices to Soviet Jews. Most European governments made appeals through diplomatic channels...