Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration's tower chief has the responsibility for closing specific runways or the entire field. Controllers are required to advise pilots of adverse conditions but cannot order them to seek another airfield. The Kennedy crash makes plain the need for clearer standards for determining when wind shear presents grave dangers, as well as tougher guidelines on what course to take when it does...
Crime on Her Mind edited by Michele B. Slung. 380 pages. Pantheon. $10. To support her blind husband, the heroine throws propriety to the winds and enters a "profession which was not only a harassing and exhausting one for a woman, but by no means free from grave personal risks." Not to put too fine a point on it, she becomes a detective. As this surprising anthology of 15 mystery tales demonstrates, the lady was hardly alone. The sisterhood began digging up clues a quarter-century before Sherlock Holmes appeared on Baker Street. They have been at it ever since...
...Unmarked Grave. First a security man prodded him in the side with a sharpened stick. Then, as the prince straightened his body in response, the executioner's gold-handled sword flashed, and the condemned man's head rolled from his shoulders. The crowd, silent until that moment, broke into shouts of "Allahu akhbar [God is great]." For 15 minutes the prince's head was displayed on the tip of a spike for the crowd's inspection; eventually an ambulance collected it and the body for burial in an unmarked grave...
...grandiose plans for public control of industries and investment, had been demanding his dismissal from the Cabinet. On the other hand, powerful union leaders including Jack Jones, president of the Transport and General Workers Union, had warned that any demotion of Benn would be taken as "a grave affront." The situation called for the kind of political juggling act at which Wilson excels, and he came through with a dazzling performance...
According to the Ernst & Ernst report, Northrop since 1971 may have spent as much as $30 million overseas for which it did not properly account. Ernst & Ernst described 17 arrangements as questionable enough to warrant study. Some seem legitimate, but others are open to grave objections. They range from the petty-$4,400 to an Iranian tax assessor to settle "a minor tax matter"-to the serious. Some examples...