Word: graving
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...some secret place, where every secret is wrapped in another secret, some political figure of great power took note of this most grave situation [the imposing rise of Solidarity in the summer of 1980]and, mindful of the vital needs of the Eastern bloc, decided it was necessary to kill Pope Wojtyta...
After the speech, the President and his wife gamely descended into a German bunker, then flew to the American cemetery above Omaha Beach. Walking alone arm in arm among the geometrically perfect rows of graves, they paid silent homage to the American dead. At the grave of an unknown soldier, the First Lady placed some flowers; later she laid a spray of carnations and blue irises at the tombstone of Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr., the son of his presidential namesake, who landed on Utah Beach with the 4th Infantry Division and died of a heart attack one month later...
...during the McCarthy period the Corporation turned strongly anti-Communist. They once issued a statement which read in part, "In the absence of extraordinary circumstances, we would regard present membership in the Communist Party by a member of our faculty as grave misconduct justifying removal...
...operative Faculty legislation on the issue, the 1970 Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities, states "that intense personal harassment of such a character as to amount to grave disrespect for the dignity of others be regarded as an unacceptable violation of the personal rights on which the University is based...
...pursuit of truth" and free inquiry. Furry, however, who had testified in a second hearing that he had ceased being a communist in 1951 and had admitted to Harvard officials that in 1944 he had lied to FBI officials about a colleague's political affiliations, was found guilty of "grave misconduct"--grounds for dismissal...