Word: graving
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...most frequent causes of vehement argument and violent crime. Once, while dancing with some friends, a man who was not part of our group asked me to dance. Midway through the dance I was yanked from the floor by one of my friends. I had committed a grave offense by not asking the group's permission to dance with a stranger and had consequently hurt everyone's pride...
...some 300 hours, and even spent an hour in one of the closets where the defendant was kept. Browning then asked Fort his views on the key question of the trial: "Did the defendant participate in the bank robbery because she was in fear of her life or grave bodily injury from the S.L.A...
...Incentives. Kosygin tried to cushion the disappointing prospects for Russia's consumers by dramatizing the recent recession in the West. "The capitalist world has been in the grip of a grave economic crisis," he declared, "an organic disease of the capitalist system aggravated by the protracted militarization of the economy." This was resoundingly seconded by American Communist Party Boss Gus Hall, who described the economic situation in the U.S. as horribly bleak. Kosygin deftly skirted the chronic shortages plaguing the Soviet consumer. He blamed poor weather for last year's disastrous harvest that resulted in a 76-million...
...misleading fundamentalist image. No believer in biblical literalism, Pannenberg nevertheless thinks that Bultmann's evasion of the resurrection as a historical event is rationally untenable. As circumstantial evidence, he cites the early church's unshakable belief in it. Unless Christ actually rose from the grave, Pannenberg reasons, how can a historian plausibly account for the blazing fervor of the early Christians...
...handles foreign affairs with a punchy line for each issue. Defense: We will suffer "the peace of the grave unless we are willing to say we will never be second to any nation on earth in our ability to defend ourselves." Détente: Its major result for the U.S. has been the "acquisition of the right to sell Pepsi-Cola in Siberia." SALT: "The cruise missile: Will it be removed from our defensive arsenal to win a smile from those who continue to pledge and promise our destruction...