Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President is a rugged man with a grave and gentle conversational style. There is an utterly calm and somewhat pedantic quality in his harshest comments on Zionism, Israeli aggressiveness and U.S. foreign policy, and these little lectures consumed at least half of the interview. Assad's views on substantive issues...
With those words, a federal grand jury composed of 23 American citizens last week presented a grave and most exceptional charge: a criminal conspiracy existed "up to and including" the present at the highest levels of Richard Nixon's Administration. The accused include four of the President's most intimate and influential former official and political associates. And by clear implication in the language of the indictment, the jurors disclosed their belief that the President has lied about at least one potentially criminal act of his own in the still-spreading scandal...
...nation in Western Europe gets along better with China than does France. Last week, though, the Peking government issued a solemn warning to Paris about possible grave consequences for future relations between the two countries...
IMPEACHMENT. Rarely has a word stirred such passions or borne such grave implications for the future governance of the U.S. And rarely has a word been given such a latitude of meaning. On the broad side, there is the interpretation offered in 1970 (and since qualified) by Vice President Gerald Ford when he was the leader among 110 Congressmen trying to impeach Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas: "An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history." On the narrow side, there is the argument that...
...stood with vacant, indifferent faces around the wooden coffin. El padre, without talking to anyone, went directly up to the coffin and began reading prayers in Spanish, the words pronounced in a slow and measured tone. I stood about 10 yards away, on the lip of the freshly-dug grave, feeling as though at any moment I might just tumble in. I had to conjure up all of my will power to keep from bursting out in a wicked laugh at this scene that in my condition seemed so ridiculous...