Word: graving
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...individual death in Judaism, the Holocaust added a national significance. Here was the death of deaths, 6 million gone. Just as the past becomes the present, so did the image of the Holocaust enter the soul of the country. It was like the Resurrection: the Jews arising from the grave that had been dug for them, inspired by the Holocaust as are Christians by the agony of the cross...
...possible, as an act of imagination, to believe that strongly in a place no longer there, it should be equally possible to believe in a peace with the Arabs that is not yet there either. For too long now Israel has peered into a vacated grave for proof of its life. That life is aboveground, and straight ahead...
Whatever the fate of Mexico, officials at the conference warned that there could be equally grave consequences if banks suddenly became overly cautious and started refusing to lend money to Third World governments at all. Having put out easy loans to those countries for the past decade, bankers cannot now abruptly snap their wallets shut without imperiling the economies of several weak borrowers. Both borrowers and lenders now face a very delicate financial situation, and it may require the talents of a magician more than those of a banker to solve the problems...
...wooden casket was then placed on an army gun carriage and taken in a slow moving procession to the cemetery A 21 gun salute echoed across the mountain peaks of central Lebanon as the 34 year old slam leader was lowered into his grave to the drumbeat of an army band
...claimed, were not proof of a latent French anti-Semitism. Instead, radical elements sabotaging France's role in mediating the Lebanese confrontation, were to blame. After announcing a series of security provisions, including police reinforcements and the creation of a secretary of state for security. Mitterrand assumed a grave, but confident expression. "There will come a day when terrorism will fall under our blows. With courage and perseverence, we shall win this fight...