Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other administrators of the "final solution" had little taste for witnessing the outcome of their executive orders. If only because the authority for acts of state ultimately resides in the broad consent of the people, we must apply to ourselves the same rule that we have with such grave innocence applied to criminals of war in the past. If animals did what we accuse these few of doing, we would destroy them. Yet we hesitate to condemn so quickly. We see in them something of ourselves that we cannot understand and, failing to understand, attempt to deny...
...University of Arizona in order to enlist with his former high school friends. A 6 ft. 4 in., three-sport letterman, he told his mother of his feelings just before going to Viet Nam. "We were up practically all night," Mrs. Glenn King recalls. "He had his grave all picked out in Clifton Cemetery. He loved that place and those beautiful red hills...
...noon on the frosty morning of Dec. 21, a group of 20 men and women gathered in Red Square to protest in case any pro-Stalin demonstration was held at the dictator's grave, which is now marked only by a simple marble slab. There was no demonstration, but Stalinism was commemorated in another fashion. One of the leading associates of the dissenting group. Economist Viktor Krasin, was arrested the night before as a "parasite" and sentenced to five years of exile without a formal trial. Afterward, one of the dissidents noted: "Today it is different from Stalin...