Word: graving
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...cost will have prevailed, at the expense of the integrity of the Constitution. House Republicans know that the Senate will likely not convict Bill Clinton if the case goes to trial. Nevertheless, they would use the constitutional procedure of impeachment as a substitute for censure. This amounts to a grave abuse of their power...
Clinton's lawyers have assembled a series of witnesses who admit that Clinton's behavior was reprehensible but say his private misconduct is not a grave threat to the nation...
...they strike at something deep, evoking feelings of sadness, melancholy and regret. "A worm of hope/ a hangman's rope/ pulls me one way or the other," he sings on Cold Brains. On another track he sings, "Treated you like a rusty blade/ A throwaway from an open grave...
...catchall category for manipulative, difficult patients with intractable disorders. In reality, the authors say, cutters are people frozen in trauma. More than half of self-injurers are victims of sexual abuse, and most report emotionally abusive or neglected childhoods, the strains of which send them into an emotional grave. "To me, it wasn't the self-injury that was shocking but the things that brought them to this point in their lives," says Strong. Typically, at some point in adolescence, they happen to injure themselves. Not only does it not hurt but the blood seems to voice their pain...
...lies a hint of current attitudes toward abortion. While the desire of a majority of Americans to keep abortion legal is steadfast, it is also passive and quiet. Before too long, Slepian will join the list of doctors and their assistants killed and then buried in an unmarked media grave. Until an ad began running this week, I had forgotten about nurse Emily Lyons, maimed in the bombing of a Birmingham, Ala., clinic 10 months ago. The bomb that killed an off-duty police officer tore through the nurse's intestines, shattered her bones and ripped her left...