Word: graving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from London to investigate the crash, the third fatal crash in Comet history, fishermen, rescue planes and ships from the U.S. Sixth Fleet combed the water for survivors. They found none, but amid the flotsam of wreckage that floated on the Tyrrhenian Sea to mark the Comet's grave, 15 bodies were recovered. In an age of urgency and jet propulsion, the Comet's passengers had met their end as swiftly as they had pursued their goals upon earth. Said an examining surgeon: "They showed no look of terror. Death must have come without warning...
...himself a cardinal at 18, an accomplished murderer at 25, and military conqueror of a good part of Italy at 27, were carried into the street and buried beneath the cobblestones and the dung of passing cattle. For 400 years the villagers of Viana avoided the unmarked grave, particularly on the night of March 11, when Cesare's ghost is said to be abroad and thirsty for vengeance. For generations the city fathers of Viana urged Cesare's reburial inside the church; for generations the priests of Viana resisted them...
...Corporation had found Kamin guilty of "misconduct" in his refusal to testify to the committee, but had refused to dismiss him on the grounds that only "grave misconduct" warranted dismissal...
After Furry had refused to answer certain questions before the House Un American Activities Committee in February, 1953, the Corporation found him guilty of "grave misconduct" and placed him on probation for three years. But the Corporation, which reserved the right to fire Furry, kept him on the faculty "because there is a very different climate of political opinion" now than in the period from 1938 to 1947 when furry was admittedly a member of the Communist party...
...Dessalines-style fanatic; he smokes long cigars, smiles readily and gets along well with folks of any color. On the same day that he unveiled a 16-ft. statue of the Tiger last week. President Magloire significantly saw to it that his wife placed a wreath on the grave of Dessalines' Empress, who gained fame and honor of her own by sheltering in her palace some of the white colonists fleeing from the wrath of her husband's troops...