Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...better than the one that Ford himself has proposed. It could include bigger tax cuts than he has asked and an energy policy of gasoline taxes and tough conservation standards. The one outcome that seems impossible is continued drift. By proposing a sweeping and specific program?although one with grave flaws?and emphasizing the need for fast action, Ford has thrown down to Congress a challenge that it cannot ignore. A year or so from now, Ford might even be able to say?if he cared to borrow the phraseology of another Democratic President ?that he got the country...
...euphoria of its chance successes, when the most menial cub "stringer" has his pet theory about the role of journalism in society. No wonder the editors seem to feel insecure about this sort of breezy, down-home folksy journalism amidst their solemn big brothers at The Times with their grave headlines about politics and foreign policy. Cringing at that phrase from the high school newspaper--"the human interest story"--the editors seem to feel that they had to justify it by dressing it up in some pseudoscientific jargon, hoping for sociological and historical significance...
...would dominate a Christian Democratic return to power? The answer is none other than Franz Josef Strauss, 59, the ham-fisted Bavarian political boss who has once again made a phoenix-like return from the political grave. From his base as leader of the C.S.U., Strauss has emerged after several years of political eclipse to become one of the most important power brokers in Bonn...
...Middle East via the shortest route and then provide vast storage facilities for the vital fuel-all without undue environmental risk. Until recently, the Japanese were confident that they could transport and store their oil safely and efficiently. Now two serious oil spills have caused shokku (shock) and raised grave doubts on both counts...
...will for such community services. But their new image has recently been tarnished by the revival of hazing. At a pre-initiation hazing last fall at the Zeta Beta Tau chapter at New Jersey's Monmouth College, William Flowers, 19, was suffocated when a 5-ft.-deep mock grave in which he was lying collapsed. At Georgetown University, a fraternity pledge was hospitalized, according to campus rumor, after he was forced to chug-a-lug glass after glass of "purple Jesus," a potent mix of vodka, rum, grape, orange and lemon juices...