Word: solemn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time the foremost Republican student of foreign affairs, John Foster Dulles, joined in solemn discussion of the danger. The U.S., Dulles told the audience, must beware of any tendency to "become panicky and strike out violently." At the same time, he said, the U.S. must not "become fascinated, as by the gaze of a serpent, and become paralyzed into inaction lest the least movement might lead Russia to strike." At the White House the same day, President Truman admitted that his hopes for peace had been shaken in the past year. Then he carefully added: "I still believe...
...Rome, solemn ceremonies, sacred music and fluttering banners celebrated the 72nd birthday of Pope Pius XII. Most Vatican offices were closed for the occasion, but the church's sacred congregations were not taking it easy. They were working at top speed to head off a victory for the Communist-dominated "Popular Front" in the coming elections on April...
Learning to be at ease with such varied assignments as presidential inaugurations, Olympic ski jumps, an eclipse over Brazil, and Edna Wallace Hopper has converted Grauer into something of a quick-change artist. Last week, for example, he was a solemn reader of blank verse (Living-1948), a slightly sardonic moderator (Author Meets the Critics), a whimsical telecast quizmaster (Americana Hall), a rather bubbly announcer (Chesterfield Supper Club). On the NBC Symphony, he had to hurry ("Toscanini won't wait a second," he confided, "I really have to rush before the downbeat...
After 16 years of rule, solemn old Eamon de Valera was out. In the Dail, longtime Dev-baiting Deputy James Dillon declaimed: "Thanks...
...common chord struck in all the stories-sex not as sensual experience but as a disturbing drive that leads people to behavior they can hardly control and but dimly understand. In one beautiful tale, The Babes in the Wood, O'Connor enters the shadow-world of painfully solemn, almost preternatural children who suffer from their elders' illicit affairs. O'Connor's bitterest stories are implicit denunciations of the sexual attitudes-or lack of them-of the prim, provincial and pious sort of Irishwoman. When a husband, desperately annoyed with his wife's unwifely reliance...