Word: graving
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...written statement that he said was "facetious," Carrier claimed: "So acute is the reaction to the continuing peril that pedestrians are preparing a charge of grave misconduct and neglect of duty against the members of the commission...
...Honolulu Chamber of Commerce last year wrote President Nixon, "If the 800,000 residents of the District of Columbia were shut off from vital supplies, you might consider such a situation a 'grave emergency.' But nothing is being done for the 800,000 residents of Hawaii...
JUST RECENTLY, The New York Times reported that authorities in Czechoslavakia have removed the remains of Jan Palach from an unmarked grave in a Prague cemetary and transferred them to an unknown location...
...financing case. There it was proved that the Chicanos of San Antonio, because they were poor, received a very inferior school system. For as long as I've been here, religion, color and poverty have been lines that you couldn't cross and discriminate against without a grave risk to the equal-protection clause...
There are some hawks, however, who want to talk about "the beginning of the war" right now. Menahem Begin, a leader of the opposition Likud coalition in the Knesset, has denounced the government for the "grave shortcoming" of not properly deploying the army before the Egyptian and Syrian attack. He blasted as "frivolous" the government's assessment of the military situation before Yom Kippur...