Word: graving
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...Goldwater's 1964 proposal to make Social Security voluntary and George McGovern's 1972 recommendation that the Government pay every American $1,000 a year. Above an editorial at tacking the scheme, New Hampshire's Portsmouth Herald last week carried the headline REAGAN DIGS HIS OWN GRAVE. Although federal taxes would be decreased, Gerald Ford's campaign aides-and Democrats-point out that state and local taxes would soar...
...take a onetime national hero, J. Edgar Hoover [Dec. 22], and after he is dead, you dig him up and bury him in a different grave...
...Ford to soften his adamant stand against giving aid to New York City until it declared bankruptcy, although the President also forced many cutbacks on the city. In another compromise with the White House, Congress floundered for a year before finally passing a makeshift energy bill that had many grave weaknesses...
...candlestick-cum-reliquary depicting the flight into Egypt, borrowed from a church in Gaeta, is an exquisite example of how late medieval French styles penetrated into Italian taste at the end of the 14th century. Bernardino da Foligno's late quattrocento bust of St. Balduino has a grave nobility and an intensity of modeling that, one supposes, the saint's living features could not have had. (The actual head of St. Balduino, like a stone in a peach, lies encased within the sculpture...
...MOTHER AND FATHER. The first great blow that hit me was my mother's death when I was twelve. I was the apple of her eye and, God knows, she was my entire world. As one gets older and the grave begins to yawn, one feels closer and closer to one's father. [Olivier's father was an Anglican parson of austere Victorian rectitude.] I remember Tony Guthrie, a year or so before he died, saying, "Do you find yourself thinking about your father more and more?" and I said...