Word: graving
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...Ella, the color blue carries the grave portent incarnated in a Renaissance painting she stumbles upon: “Only the Virgin’s face, dead center in the painting, moved and changed, pain and a strange peace battling in her features as she gazed down at her dead son, framed by a colour that reflected her agony...
Around 4 p.m., as the sky darkened, Summers was lowered into a 2-m-deep grave. Kok-de Bruijn and Calderoni, the two who had spent time with the deceased, were the only ones crying. Fuligno then stepped up onto the nearby pile of earth and invited mourners each to toss a handful of dirt onto the coffin, as his fellow Baptists always do. After hesitating, the onlookers began to step forward. And, slowly, the white casket adorned with the teenagers' magic-markered calligraphy disappeared under a layer of soft, brown earth...
...extra piles of atmospheric data they commissioned to prop it up, cost thousands more lives. Snow's victory over the miasmatists wasn't conceded until years after his death in 1858. Some never relented, such as London's otherwise enlightened Health Board chief, Edwin Chadwick, who went to his grave still propounding that belief in 1890 - seven years after the German scientist Robert Koch definitively identified Vibrio cholerae...
...Hizballah over a quarter century. While the U.S. remains committed for now to a diplomatic solution to the nuclear standoff, the Israeli leadership has little faith that the Iranians will back down. And with Israelis having been told by their leaders that the Iranian nuclear program constitutes a grave and immediate existential danger to the Jewish State, the domestic pressure on Israel to act may be growing...
...shame there's no Arabic word for Duh! because that word would perfectly sum up the Iraqi reaction to the conclusions in the Iraq Study Group report. Nobody living in this country needs a high-powered bipartisan Washington committee to tell them that (a) the situation is "grave and dangerous"; (b) there's no "magic bullet" solution; (c) talking to Iran and Syria is the smart thing to do; and (d) the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki isn't up to scratch...