Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Oliver Cromwell's body may be amoldering in his grave, but in Ireland his soul goes marching on, and the people continue to fight the religious wars of 300 years...
...neutralize soldiers and planes close to Son Tay with hard stuff?actions sure to bring violent protests from Hanoi and probably from the U.S. peace movement. There seemed no other resort to protect the raiders during the hour they would need to extricate the prisoners. The risk was grave, and Kissinger had one last session with the President. When Kissinger started to speculate as to how many of the helicopters might get out, Nixon cut him off: "That's bad luck. Don't speculate...
...discomfiture, he touched off criticism among his own cardinals shortly before leaving Rome by decreeing that cardinals over 80 could henceforth neither hold "Vatican office" nor vote in a papal election. The Pope suggested in his directive that "the problem of advanced age" might affect "grave and delicate roles" of cardinals...
...jury would have sympathized with the plight of Boccardo's client. A diesel mechanic from Ely, Nev., Keith Bush, now 30, suffered grave brain damage when a bolt snapped and 1,250 Ibs. of electrical equipment hurtled down to crush the left side of his skull...
...Harvard memorandum reported that "the entire private university system in the United States in its current form is in grave financial trouble. Although richer than the others, Harvard is not an exception...