Word: graving
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...midnight until dawn condemning any man they see to death by continuous dancing. Giselle enters these formidable ranks, but breaks the rules by protecting Albrecht from the willi's wrath. This act of bravery and generosity saves her lover and brings her the reward of eternal peace in the grave...
...weeks ago that they were ready to sign a Contadora treaty immediately and without further negotiations. Discussions about the document, which calls for a non-aggression agreement and a commitment to democracy among the nations of Central America, have been going on since January 1983. The U.S. has grave reservations about the treaty as it stands. Among other flaws, say U.S. diplomats, the document would require the U.S. to halt military aid to El Salvador immediately, without stopping Soviet and Cuban assistance to Nicaragua. The Contadora nations, on the other hand, evidently feel that the U.S. is stalling. "We cannot...
...melancholy fog shrouded the moors the night Lord Edgar brought his bride to Mandacrest. Portents of dread creaked in every dank corner of the ancient manor. The bride's sepulchral maid remained loyal beyond the grave to the first Lady Hillcrest, whose portrait was known to bleed when a stray bullet punctured the canvas. On nights when a full moon peeked through the clouds, Lord Edgar's Karloffian butler showed a disconcerting tendency to sprout wolfs hair...
Once it was a farmhouse, a great Federal affair of brick and hand-hewn oak that majestically held a Pennsylvania knoll just west of Philadelphia. It was a very old house-any architecture major could tell that-for down beneath the basement was a chamber as dark as the grave. This had been a depot on the Underground Railroad, a hiding cellar for northbound slaves. The landholders, generation after generation, had given over their rolling soil and their Quaker time to corn and cows, and for a very long while there it would seem the clock stood still...
...long and loud when Mondale criticized Reagan's frequent references to revered Democrats. "But they have to be dead," Mondale noted. "It's got to be Roosevelt or Truman or Kennedy. They're even picking my old friend Humphrey; he's turning over in his grave. Why don't they leave our own heroes alone and honor their own-Hoover and Nixon and Agnew...