Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right is former President Jorge Alessandri, 74, who is backed by the country's business interests but retains a carefully preserved common touch. Every Saturday morning he carries a wreath to the grave of his father Arturo, a onetime President whom the Chileans revere as "the lion of Tarapaca." To hundreds of thousands of poor rows (broken ones) who have flocked from the large estates to Santiago, Jorge Alessandri is himself a father figure. "There is too much politics," he says, "and not enough work...
...grave risk now facing Gould is getting into reruns before his prime time is used up. In Getting Straight, when his jaw flew open in astonishment and water cascaded down his chin during the Master of Arts oral exam, the bit was both funny and surprising. But when he appeared on-screen in Move just a couple of months later doing the same thing again, it became self-parody. The theme of I Love My Wife concerns the oft-plumbed conflict between professional success and contemporary marriage; Little Murders deals with urban man's inhumanity to urban...
...What would it change?" shrugged a young mechanic from Kladno. In Prague, some Czechs placed flowers and candles on the grave of Jan Palach, the student who burned himself to death on Jan. 16, 1969, in protest against the invasion. The flowers and candles were removed by the authorities...
...Tufts refused to comply with the HISC request on the grounds that it "suggests grave and ominous implications involving constitutionally guaranteed rights of free speech and other freedoms which the university has traditionally enjoyed and protected...
...they are ready to toss the ashes and sprinkle the dust, and to commend his soul to God for the final time. And because he is a veteran, they have buried Anthony with the full privileges his heroism commands. Anthony Blake, dead at 20, is lowered into the grave, clothed in the flag...