Word: solemn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fair-haired and soft-spoken Kubacki was unusually solemn Tuesday night. "It's been a good year," he said. "I'd like to do it all the way. What...
...wasn't too surprised by the serious, even solemn tone of most of the interviews. But Anne was surprised at "the guilt and the contortions" that came pouring out, and particularly surprised that they "were suffered equally by the men--the women had all the pressure not to do it, but the men had all the pressure to do it." And although obviously things have changed over the years and the chains of sexual repression have been loosened somewhat, Anne says she came to realize that things aren't as different now as they might seem...
...solemn pronouncements of these cloistered radical groups seem pretty ridiculous. But it appears that Harrington, in his anxiety to avoid ever appearing absurd again, has fallen prey to another pitfall. For the socialist there is always the danger of allowing one's political identity to be blurred, forgetting exactly what it is that makes a socialist's world-view different from that of people with a stake in capitalist institutions...
...Prince Charles stood at attention with a crowd of 10,000 in a Port Moresby football stadium, the Australian flag was hauled down for the last time and replaced by the black, red and gold standard of the world's newest nation, Papua New Guinea. Said solemn Michael Somare, 39, a policeman's burly son who is the new Prime Minister: "This is just the beginning. Now we must stand on our own two feet and work harder than ever before...
...waited patiently for the Lord," Priscilla Cushman was standing at the lectern in Appleton Chapel, wearing a solemn black robe and leading Morning Prayers: "and he inclined unto me, and heard...