Word: graving
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...action begins with Varlam's funeral, which is soon followed by the appearance of his corpse in the family garden. He is reinterred, but reappears several times before the authorities capture the offending grave robber, a woman whose parents had been arrested and killed by Varlam, and take her to trial. Her testimony, studded with flashbacks and Fellini-like dream sequences, tells the story of Varlam's brutal reign. There are false denunciations, mass arrests and mad ravings by the tyrant, who utters such Newspeak absurdities as "Four out of every three persons is an enemy of the people...
...personality and political fortune by a gulf about as wide as the philosophical chasm between the two superpowers. The 76-year-old U.S. President prepares to play host to their third summit meeting next week in Washington, smarting from a long string of setbacks that have raised grave questions about his ability to exercise leadership during the final 14 months of his term. The 56-year-old Soviet General Secretary, despite some troubles with conservatives over the pace of his domestic reform program, arrives Monday for his first visit to the U.S. as a strong and confident leader exercising unquestioned...
...doctors from Boston Children's Hospital are trying to provide affordable international health care by building a hospital in northern Scotland, but nearby residents say the proposed construction site is asbestos-ridden and poses grave health risks...
Gorbachev, I didn't forget you, my Byelorussian buddy. I hear that you may plan to visit fair Harvard. If so, please lay a poppy on my mouldering grave. And let's get one thing straight for the record: that thing with Raisa was just a lark. I didn't mean anything...
Once a very close source of mine who allows me to break the many scandals that I have over the past three years called me up--the source calls me over the telephone with the understanding that I will take the name of Yale's "Deep Throat" to my grave. This source was the one who allowed me to break the story of how the cafeteria snack-bar had hiked the price of Snickers Bar from 25 to 35 cents. The source (whose name I cannot reveal by name but I'll just give you a hint...