Word: graving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place." Catholics say that his final destination was indubitably Rome. They add that St. Peter took the leadership of the church with him, and that he was crucified there during the persecutions of Nero. In 1951, in fact, Pope Pius XII announced that the site of Peter's grave had been definitely located during excavations beneath St. Peter...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Dec. 3--The United Nations General Assembly today passed an American-backed resolution expressing "grave concern" over charges that the Communists in Korea tortured or murdered 38,000 U.N. prisoners and Korean citizens...
...resolution's key paragraph declared that the Assembly "expresses its grave concern at reports and information that North Korean and Chinese Communist forces have, in a large number of instances, employed inhuman practices against the heroic soldiers of forces under the United Nations command in Kores and against the civilian population of Korea...
...referred to the case of Harry Dexter White and the manner in which it was treated by the prior Administration to illustrate how successful espionage agents had been in penetrating our Government at that time and how lax our Government was at that time in meeting such a grave problem...
...more or no less German . . . If we admit that [France] is not strong enough to carry on a European policy, how would she be better able to follow a policy of isolation . . .? To overthrow a foreign policy without having any alternative policy to offer would be not only grave, it would be criminal...