Word: graving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Officially, the U.S. and Britain "see eye to eye on the imperative necessity of an early settlement in the Middle East." But in practice, a pointed difference turned up last week. At the very moment that Israel was asking the U.S. State Department for arms to meet "the grave national emergency" created by Egypt's Soviet arms deal, Sir Anthony Eden was pushing a "compromise" plan to redraw Israel's border in favor of her neighbors. Eden, anxious to avert war (but also hopeful of weaning the oil-rich Arab states away from Soviet influence), proposed that...
...dangers of intellectual pride are many and grave, and we do well to discipline ourselves and our students in the moral and ascetical controls of this as of all other vices. But the dangers of intellectual stagnation are not less grievous both for individual personality and for the common good. The wrath of the stupid has laid waste the world quite as often as has the craft of the bright...
Getting on in years, Reese decided to visit his parents' grave in Germany. But he would not pay a few pfennigs to the cemetery gatekeeper. One legend has it that he tried to climb the fence, impaled himself on a rusty iron spike and died of blood poisoning. Another version: he died of apoplexy when asked...
...Mahoney also cited G.M.'s purchase of Cleveland's Euclid Road Machinery Co., in 1953, as a grave instance of big companies "swallowing up" family enterprises. By buying out former customers, said O'Mahoney, G.M. was simultaneously providing itself with a "captive market" and depriving competitors of a customer. But Euclid's former President Raymond Armington (who now runs Euclid as a G.M. unit) explained that his family-owned company, short of money for diversification, had fallen into "a very vulnerable position" to resist big competitors. "It would be a fine thing," said Armington, "if small...
...Biographer Carrington traces the story, now that the tumult and the shouting have died, Kipling rises from his grave to confront the world with neither a hum ble nor a notably contrite heart. He had the courage to hate -a healthy hate of all those who sneered at the seriousness of the white man's burden, who denigrated duty, honor, country. Americans, who in the past decade have had to accept concern for an area far greater than that ever ruled by the British Empire, may today better understand Rudyard Kipling -"this literary man," as Biographer Carrington puts...