Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John J. Moakley (D-Mass.) said that he thought Nixon did the right thing. "Now that he's resigned, I think we in Congress can turn all our attention to America's equally grave economic situation. I'm personally looking forward to working with President Ford on programs that will put people back to work, reduce the cost of living and reverse an inflation that threatens the very fabric of our society," Moakley said...
...concern that the fighting could erupt again. Greece charged that Turkey was continuing to land troops on the island in violation of the ceasefire. If the landings did not stop, warned the new civilian government in Athens, the country would go to war. Fears of renewed fighting were so grave that the U.N. Security Council called a special weekend session to seek a solution...
...sometimes gather the students together to declare him "morally dead"; then, concocting his own version of reality therapy (which denies the importance of past traumas and encourages a patient to cope outright with his current dilemma), Von Hilsheimer and the students would force the youth to dig himself a grave and lie in it overnight. "I think it is a beautiful symbolic thing for the kids to go through," he explained. "It's a way of forcing them to look at themselves." At other times he would shackle the child, jolt him with an electroshock machine dubbed a "lalapalooza...
...quotation as reported was accurate only in respect to the North Vietnamese Communists who held me captive. However, it would be a grave injustice to call this the national characteristic of millions of sensitive, creative and patriotic Vietnamese both North and South. My ire is directed toward an ideology. My empathy is for those enslaved by Communism...
...defense lawyer's classic position in a criminal case: his client is innocent until proved guilty, and the evidence presented in the Judiciary Committee hearings fails to constitute such proof. Beyond that, St. Clair claimed "a complete absence of any conclusive evidence demonstrating presidential wrongdoing sufficient to justify the grave action of impeachment...