Word: graving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, during a lull in the Palestine fighting, an armored bus under heavy escort headed south from Jerusalem on a mournful errand; it carried the mothers & fathers of the 35 dead to their funeral. The parents stood dry-eyed and solemn as their sons were buried in a common grave on a hillside overlooking the Valley of Fertility. At dawn next day, the uneasy quiet was broken...
...news from London was just what U.S. supporters of the European Recovery Program had been waiting for. Foreign Secretary Ernie Bevin's firm pledge to seek a union of Western European states (see INTERNATIONAL) fitted snugly into the Marshall Plan. The grave and dramatic announcement could hardly have been better timed...
...Eisenhower, who will quit his chief-of-staff duties on Feb. 15, acted as if he were beginning to enjoy the political rumpus. In Philadelphia last week to lay a wreath on Benjamin Franklin's grave, he was stopped by a man who proudly showed him a "Draft Eisenhower" button in his lapel. The General said: "Take that thing off and throw it away." But he wore his widest grin as he said...
...questions raised by the report, however, transcend personalities. They have to do with the general welfare. One of the grave questions was how large a Government program could be imposed on the nation without weakening U.S. democratic principles. Could the U.S. insure itself against war without turning into an authoritarian state...
...Manhattan, W. H. Auden, 40, British-born poet who became a U.S. citizen in 1946, was admitted to the grave and august National Institute of Arts and Letters...