Word: graving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Excited archaeologists from all parts of the world trooped to Eleusis, Greece, last summer to see one of the most litigious excavations of recent years. Archaeologist George E. Mylonas reported he had actually found the grave of Prince Polynecices and his five friends who had been killed, according to Greek mythology, in the attempt to capture the throne of Thebes from Polynecices's brother. The big controversy arose when Mylonas mentioned he had discovered the graves from directions written by the ancient geographer Pausanias who lived about 1,700 years after Polynecices...
...Grave in Huelva. Montagu had given his scheme the gruesome code name of Mincemeat. One day, not long after Martin's body had floated ashore at Huelva, Prime Minister Churchill, then in Washington, got a message from his chiefs of staff: "Mincemeat swallowed whole." But how gullible the Germans were was learned only after the war from captured documents. The Spaniards, behaving just as Montagu had expected, turned the papers over to a German, agent. Then, from echelon to echelon of command, went the German intelligence report: "The genuineness of the captured documents is above suspicion." Hitler himself believed...
...time when the United States must maintain good relations with its allies, Arthur E. Sutherland, prefessor of Law, felt that the isolationist implications of the amendment would prove harmful. He said that the amendment would be "advertising by our most serious and grave action," a mistrust of our friends...
Poet Jeffers is a grave, courteous man whom a good friend once described as being "cold to the human species." For more than 40 years he has lived at Carmel. Calif, in a house made, largely with his own hands, of stones rolled up from the shore below. Only in recent years has he allowed himself a telephone and electric lighting; long ago he planted thousands of trees to guard his privacy from encroaching civilization. Optimists, those who put their faith in humanity, believers in God, in fact most people, will find little comfort anywhere in Jeffers' work. Even...
...testimony will be distributed within the next week. In the statement of May 19, 1953, which placed Furry on three years' probation for "grave misconduct," the Corporation said...