Word: graving
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...shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back...
...became unusually active in local communities. Hospitable party givers, they could also be seen frequently having a drink with an M.P. or a meal with an industrialist or businessman at an expense-account restaurant. In the elegant North London suburb of Highgate (where Karl Marx's grave is located), Soviet trade-mission officials took a handsome modern office building of glass and concrete, set up house in luxurious apartments that rent for $168 to $240 a week, and went out of their way to behave like good neighbors. Their sheer numbers led some Highgate residents to complain that...
Dangerous Compounds. If the housewife is confused by that advice, she has good reason. For several years, various federal agencies have joined ecologists in stressing that phosphates can cause grave environmental damage. Pouring in a sudsy torrent from washing machines, detergents now account for about half of the growing amount of phosphates in U.S. waters. By overfertilizing algae and other plant life, phosphates start a process that depletes the oxygen supply in the water and eventually results in the eutrophication, or "death," of lakes and ponds. To counter that expanding threat to the nation's waters, four states...
...Burtonian sense of the word-being in the grip of some disabling passion such as sorrow, fear or especially love. Powell's intricate music is still scored for a faintly ridiculous comic dance, but as it launches into the final movement there is a crescendo of grave, dark chords of mortality...
...every wish that I meant to save Wilt like roses, Roses on my grave. And I wonder, Oh, I wonder, Was I ever really brave...