Word: solemnizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President's delivery was solemn, slow, almost doggedly prayerful and paternal. His main theme was essentially the familiar but enduring notion that the U.S. is not just another country in history, but that its founding was the work of special Providence. The early settlers, "the exile and the stranger, brave but frightened," came to America and "made a covenant with this land. Conceived in justice, written in liberty, bound in union, it was meant one day to inspire the hopes of all mankind." This view of the U.S. as God's country sometimes makes the rest...
According to the official newspaper Al Ahram, the Assembly was "stunned into moments of solemn silence" by Nasser's words, but did he really mean to quit? Well, hardly. Under Nasser's constitution the President may succeed himself, and Nasser pointedly failed to rule himself out as a draft choice for renomination. His message got through. Suddenly the Assembly was flooded by a deluge of telegrams, petitions and let ters urging Nasser's renomination. Visitors descended on the chamber, hurrying to get their support down in writing in the guest book. One entry attested that "The Ministry...
...Quietly. Mindful that Washington was hardly likely to build a new sea-level canal in Panama if further riots erupted, President Robles took the play into his own hands as the January anniversary approached. After long sessions with his advisers and Guardia Colonel Bolívar Vallarino, he paid solemn homage to the "heroic sacrifice" of the 21 Panamanian "martyrs" (while neglecting to mention that at least nine were killed accidentally by other Panamanians), publicly promised a completely new treaty to replace the hated 1903 pact that gives the U.S. sovereign ty over the Canal Zone. He allowed the agitators...
...Bidone. Round and solemn as a barrel of holy water, a fat old bishop (Broderick Crawford) rolls ponderously out of a big black automobile and stands staring at a huddle of Italian peasants. "My children," he informs them in a sanctimonious monotone, "I bring you tidings of great sorrow and good fortune. During the last war, a man was murdered and a treasure hidden on the land you own." The peasants, quivering with avarice, scuttle off to the appointed spot and dig up the treasure: an iron casket crammed with smoldering brilliants. "Worth at least six million lire," the bishop...
Saint Stripper. Most Gauls guffawed last March when France's state-owned TV network spoofed two of the country's solemn passions, Bonaparte and bicycle racing. But so outraged at the "indecent parody" was retired Toulouse Lawyer Francois Bousgarbiès, 79, that the peppery little patriot haled the network into court for what the French press gleefully called "the new Battle of Waterloo." Demanded Plaintiff Bousgarbiès: the network must apologize to the nation, destroy the film and pay him 1 franc (20?) in symbolic damages...