Word: solemn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pope gave a glimpse of his personal style with the plans for his Sept. 3 open-air accession ceremonies. At his direction it was not called a "coronation" or even a scaled-down "enthronement," but simply a "solemn Mass to mark the start of his ministry as Supreme Pastor." John Paul asked not to be carried on the usual portable throne but to walk in procession. Most significant, he did not wish to be crowned with the triple-decked, bee hive-shaped tiara. Instead, a pallium, the white woolen stole symbolizing his title of Patriarch of the West, would...
Commemorating the death of Caliph Ali (A.D. 600-661), who is revered by Iran's 34 million Shi'ite Muslims as the only true successor to Muhammad, is always a solemn occasion. But last week's observances were especially subdued. Tehran was tense and quiet. The Club Discotheque, normally a place of frenzied activity for Iran's newly rich upper middle class, was shuttered. Hotels and restaurants decreed a four-day prohibition of alcoholic beverages. Television stations broadcast readings from the Koran and Islamic sermons in place of Cannon and Police Story...
Radio stations in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore produced solemn coverage of the canine crisis in New York. The situation even merited a full 2½ minutes on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. Whether they played it funny or somber, it was a trying topic for newswriters faced with the basic problem of finding bowdlerisms for two very basic four-letter words...
...collected some intriguing gossip and opinion about the unbankerly new Federal Reserve Board chief. Most of it squared with the impression that Taber had got during his first meeting with Miller, just after he took office in March. "It was disarming," he recalls. "He was running around the solemn corridors of the Fed with his coat off, tossing out ideas on fighting inflation and otherwise behaving unlike the typical wary central banker...
...case was low-key. U.S. officials quietly summoned eight Soviet correspondents in Washington to "have their credentials reviewed." Some were out of town, but two very nervous Tass reporters and one from Izvestiya appeared at the office of Kenneth Brown, director of the Office of Press Relations, for a solemn 35-minute chat...