Word: graving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flowers aside, the agents started digging. As the sun came up, they stopped and waited until a workman, Claude James, came along the street. They gave him a job: digging for the body of six-year-old Bobby Greenlease, murdered by kidnapers who had planted the chrysanthemums over his grave...
...ladders and clambered to rooftops to peer over a dense honeysuckle hedge into the yard. At noon, having dug out 3 ft. of dirt and a foot of quicklime, James stepped back with a sick sigh. A pair of undertakers, their pants legs rolled up, got down into the grave and lifted out a blue plastic bag. Inside was the fully clothed body of Bobby Greenlease. He had been shot once through the head, from behind...
...site, FBI agents found a mechanical pencil which Bobby's father had given him. Hall cleared Tom Marsh, still unfound. of any part in the crime. Hall disclosed the most grisly detail of the whole horrifying crime, one of the worst in U.S. history. He said that the grave had been dug and the quicklime bought before the boy was kidnaped...
Tito's Deputy Foreign Minister, Koca Popovic, rushed to Washington from the United Nations to discuss the situation with U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, told reporters that the matter looks "very grave." Moscow chimed in with formal notes to Washington and London calling the Trieste move a "grave violation" of the six-year-old Italian peace treaty...
...that it was too close to the game of Aleman and his cronies to chronicle much of it. Just what do you mean? That it was in jeopardy and therefore scared ? Shucks! Like yourself, the Mexican press isn't scared of anything this side of the grave . . . Probably the lack of the chronicles you miss is due simply to the fact that there was nothing of the sort to chronicle . . .Who was the editor who, not with the traditional blue pencil of his kind but with the rewrite man's typewriter, was hurled out of his window four...