Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Meir attended funeral services in Jerusalem for 20 Jews who were among the 47 people killed on Feb. 21 when a sabotaged Swissair jet exploded and crashed while flying from Zurich to Tel Aviv. As she spoke of Israel's doleful familiarity with "the phenomenon of the common grave," Mrs. Meir buried her face in her hands and wept. Then she dried her tears and in a firm voice urged: "Let us turn the sorrow and rage into a mighty force, real and moral. Let our anguish cry out to the world, and our rage be a lever...
...Grave Offense. Had Toussie really stopped breaking the law the day after the grace period ended? Or had he continued to violate it every day that he failed to register? The concept of "continuing violation" is found throughout the law. For example, when conspirators plan to commit a crime, the statute of limitations does not start running at the moment they begin to carry out their agreement. Their scheme is a continuing offense until it is completed or abandoned...
...Toussie's case, the Court declared that although failing to sign up is a grave offense, the language of the draft law does not make it a continuing one. "We feel that the threat of criminal punishment and the five-year statute of limitations is a sufficient incentive to encourage compliance," Justice Hugo Black noted for the majority. He suggested that if Congress had intended failure to register to be a continuing crime, it should have said so explicitly...
...have disobeyed the command of the spiritual master," accuses the devotee. "It is a grave offense...
...Letters, Chambers sees the materialistic West on the point of grave decline, and includes the U.S.S.R. in the West. He scorns liberals who "would like to suppose that the world can be made reasonable." Common-sense U.S. positivism is equally misguided. "Every garage mechanic in the West," Chambers writes, "insofar as he believes in nuts and bolts but asks: The Holy Ghost, what's that?' shares the substance of those same beliefs . . . That is why it is idle to talk about preventing the wreck of Western civilization. It is already a wreck from within...