Word: graving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line of 200 cars followed the hearse along crowd-lined avenues, past embassies with flags flying at half-staff. Crossing the Potomac into Virginia, the procession stopped at the cemetery gate, where an iron-tired Army caisson with six grey horses waited to carry to the grave the body of the statesman, sometime (1917-18) major, U.S. Army. With an Army-Navy-Air Force color-guard marching ahead, and the flag of the U.S. Secretary of State flying bravely behind, the caisson rolled slowly up the hill to the grave site on a grassy knoll near a yellowwood tree...
Saluting Fire. Under a canopy near the grave, the mourners silently took their places. In the first row beside the family-Mrs. Dulles, two grown sons, a married daughter-sat the President of the U.S., his face set in sadness, and next to him his wife. As the Army band played Hark, Hark, My Soul, servicemen from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard lifted the coffin from the caisson and carried it to the grave. The Rev. Roswell P. Barnes, U.S. secretary of the World Council of Churches, read the burial service: "I am the resurrection...
GENEVA, May 31--President Eisenhower was reported to have told Big Four statesmen he looks to a possible series of summit talks where grave East-West disputes can be negotiated...
...following year, it moved into the first installment of its present home on Divinity Avenue. From the very beginning, the Peabody collection had been poorly displayed because of insufficient financial endowment. As he soon found out, Putnam had to raise funds unendingly to alleviate this grave situation. In fact, the endowment of Peabody was so small that it could barely meet the necessary expenses of administration...
This leaves fielding as the varsity's one major uncertain quantity. Third base is a particularly grave problem in this respect, and none of the other positions (with the possible exception of secondbase and catcher) are manned by notably sure-fingered players...