Word: graving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year, the three Premiers will continue jockeying for power, and the fate of Nigeria could well hinge on who comes out on top. Last week, even as the National Planning Committee of Independence opened its contest for the design of a national flag (first prize: $300), many Nigerians had grave reservations about what lay ahead. For all its jubilation, Nigeria's West African Pilot felt obliged to warn: "Independence without difficulties is a dream of Utopia...
...turned more and more to the preparation of arms-pernicious instruments of death and destruction-instead of improving the welfare of all classes, particularly the poorer classes? We know, it is true, that to bring about so laudable, so praiseworthy a proposition and to level the differences there are grave and intricate difficulties in the way, but they must be victoriously overcome, even if by force: this is, in fact, the most important undertaking, connected with the prosperity of all mankind...
...sent off in one direction to work all day, she in another. They put their young sons in a common nursery (which charged for the privilege), and the children's 70-year-old grandmother worked on a "mending brigade." Among other conveniences at the commune was a common grave-a pool filled with a special chemical to help turn bodies into useful fertilizer...
...could pitch another nine innings." Said Inao: "I was tired after three games, but I told myself to think of the old days when I rowed my father's tiny boat in rough seas. Now I feel like an emperor." His first project: a trip to the grave of his father (who died this year) there to report proudly: "Dear father, I have fulfilled our dream...
...Dominion Steel and Coal (known in the brokerage houses and luncheon clubs as "DOSCO"), and the chief misery of the fire, as I remember, seemed to lie in the effect it might have on the future operations of the company. With No. 4 functioning only as an expensive, spacious grave for the victims of the first event and with much surface equipment lost in the fire, there was some question whether "DOSCO" would continue to have faith in Springhill's future. Merchants tightened credit and more people left town...