Word: graving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pint of Beer. "Facts in Ireland," writes Authoress Honor Tracy, "are very peculiar things. They are rarely allowed to spoil the sweep and flow of conversation." In casting aside the grave, ascetic leader whom many of them had served with respect approaching reverence for three decades, the Irish were characteristically unconcerned with facts. Many grim realities confront Ireland in her 33rd year of independence: an emigration rate that is bleeding her white of young blood at the rate of 20,000 a year, an agricultural economy that has still only one market (the U.K.), a soaring unemployment that reached...
...Grave Misconduct...
Harvard Corporation stated it would regard present membership in the Communist Party as "grave misconduct, justifying removal" and that use of the Fifth Amendment is "entirely inconsistent with the candor to be expected of one devoted to the pursuit of truth." Nevertheless it ruled that these three teachers should be retained. It found that Dr. Furry was "not now under the domination of the Communist Party," that Dr. Markham "is not, and never has been, a member of the Communist Party," and as to Mr. Kamin, that "About July, 1950, he ceased writing for the Daily Worker and dropped...
...graduate of that same Law School, and a member of the New York Bar, I have grave doubts whether the course followed by Harvard Corporation was correct, and I believe that it is appropriate on this anniversary date to review its action in the light of subsequent events...
...Reynolds was an absentee war correspondent . . . with the yellow streak glaring for the world to see." As an added insult, Pegler reported that Reynolds not only practiced nudism but also had the bad taste to propose marriage to Broun's wife on the way to Broun's grave...