Word: graving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invoke the privilege "perhaps a mistaken one. It is the better part of wisdom to talk" despite the danger of possible government prosecution, he said. "But I find it very hard indeed to say that the teacher who decides he will not talk can be charged with a grave abuse of his Constitutional powers...
...Delhi communique was brief and noncommittal. Red China and India would meet in Peking next month, at In dia's request, to discuss "outstanding matters in regard to Tibet." There was nothing in the wording to show Indians themselves that Prime Minister Nehru had grave complaints to lay at his neighbor's door. Among them...
This curiosity about his own brain, and his grave sense of responsibility and hope for its products, would be understandable enough if only for its most recent series of convolutions?the experiments in which he planned, built and flew the world's first really workable helicopter,* and more recent work in which he has helped bring the device to its present state of windmilling efficiency. Today, at 64, he is not only an honored pioneer of the brave, oil-spattered world of pre-Sarajevo aviation but also the paramount prophet of a completely new era of flight...
...Ostrich Way. As might have been expected, "the classical languages have virtually disappeared from the high schools." Worse still, "the modern foreign languages have been buried alive with them in a common, unmarked grave . . . Meanwhile, the U.S. Office of Education smugly reports that "percentage enrollments in algebra, geometry, physics and Latin have shown progressive decreases . . . since...
...minor symptoms, the job will not be easy. In most cases it may entail some nagging, but I believe most women will agree that it is better to have a live and healthy husband, however harassed he may be, than to allow him to go complacently to an untimely grave...