Word: graving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...already acting like an animal is offered in sharp terms a purely animal stimulus: food or death. The obvious animal response is expected. Yet in one case, a man was sentenced to death twelve times and he refused to yield. Another man was made to dig his own grave, was taken before a firing squad, heard the command to fire and heard the pistols click on empty chambers; and he refused to yield. Such testimony as this seems to teach us that the spirit of man can run deeper than the reflexes of Pavlov...
Instead, three friars met them at the cemetery gate. They carried the coffin, chanting psalms of resurrection, to a freshly dug grave, where one of them read the Office of the Dead. Long after the family had gone, the friars remained by the fresh mound in prayer...
...worried about the slump in prices of cattle and other farm products. They were disturbed because Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, who spoke in the district three weeks before election, had not come forward with a specific farm program, but had again and again indicated that he had grave reservations about the present (i.e., the Democratic) farm program. Benson seemed to threaten a change, but he had not said to what...
...which the then Bishop of Salamanca listed the books of Unamuno that were on the Index. In a sudden panic, the university changed the name of the Unamuno house, which was to be opened as a museum, to the Casa Rectoral. It canceled plans to visit Unamuno's grave, rescinded invitations to his relatives, barred the mention of his name in the program. Then university officials sat back to await the arrival of visitors...
...time, the number of Americans who are over 65 has risen from 2,400.000 to 13 million. In the next six years, the over-65 group is expected to reach 16 million while the over-50 group will number 41 million. These cold statistics show the size of a grave new economic problem for U.S. industry and the nation: What can be done about the older worker...