Word: graving
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...euphoria of its chance successes, when the most menial cub "stringer" has his pet theory about the role of journalism in society. No wonder the editors seem to feel insecure about this sort of breezy, down-home folksy journalism amidst their solemn big brothers at The Times with their grave headlines about politics and foreign policy. Cringing at that phrase from the high school newspaper--"the human interest story"--the editors seem to feel that they had to justify it by dressing it up in some pseudoscientific jargon, hoping for sociological and historical significance...
...last week. Nonetheless, there were such unusually heavy police and security precautions around Moscow's Novodevichi Cemetery that no Western observers were able to verify his presence. At week's end Tass had not yet released promised photos of the party leader at his mother's grave...
...would dominate a Christian Democratic return to power? The answer is none other than Franz Josef Strauss, 59, the ham-fisted Bavarian political boss who has once again made a phoenix-like return from the political grave. From his base as leader of the C.S.U., Strauss has emerged after several years of political eclipse to become one of the most important power brokers in Bonn...
...Middle East via the shortest route and then provide vast storage facilities for the vital fuel-all without undue environmental risk. Until recently, the Japanese were confident that they could transport and store their oil safely and efficiently. Now two serious oil spills have caused shokku (shock) and raised grave doubts on both counts...
...will for such community services. But their new image has recently been tarnished by the revival of hazing. At a pre-initiation hazing last fall at the Zeta Beta Tau chapter at New Jersey's Monmouth College, William Flowers, 19, was suffocated when a 5-ft.-deep mock grave in which he was lying collapsed. At Georgetown University, a fraternity pledge was hospitalized, according to campus rumor, after he was forced to chug-a-lug glass after glass of "purple Jesus," a potent mix of vodka, rum, grape, orange and lemon juices...