Word: graving
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...Henderson describes it, taking over the Juneau was the culmination of his years of service. It was a reward, an honor—and also a grave responsibility. “I was of course, proud to take command of a ship with such a great tradition for excellence,” Henderson writes. “I was humbled by the enormous responsibility placed upon my shoulders, responsibility for carrying out my assigned missions and for maintaining the combat readiness of this national asset...
...characters, like episode four's Latino gangbangers. But the leads are richly drawn and well cast; theater veteran Hall finds layers within layers in tightly wound David. In the pilot's finest scene, Nathaniel's funeral, Nate makes a self-indulgent show of refusing to sprinkle dirt on the grave from a tidy canister, protesting the "sanitized" ritual by hurling on fistfuls of dirt with his bare hands; Ruth follows suit, wailing like an animal. "You want to get your hands dirty?" David confronts his brother. "You sanctimonious prick. Talk to me when you've had to stuff formaldehyde-soaked...
...daughter on the island of Sangir, north of Manado, has asked him to find other work, but the money is too good to give up. To earn more, he even works shifts in the mines themselves. "Sometimes I feel that one of the holes I dig will become my grave," he says with a laugh...
...methyl mercury, the far more toxic form that wreaked such damage in Minamata after the same transformation took place. Guesses about how long the process will take range from two to 10 years. But nobody disputes that the conversion will happen. And when it does, Manado will be in grave danger. In Minamata, the population subsisted largely on a diet of fish caught in their bay. So too do the people of Manado. Every night, hundreds of stalls selling sea bream and garoupa and squid and prawns and crab and eel line the road that curves around...
...getting called back into service by Uncle Sam, he decides to take the cash and gun out of his mysterious safety-deposit box, pound some sense into his anti-Semite boss, and steal an airplane. Shot out the sky, he wrecks into the ocean and presumably finds a watery grave...