Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most solemn warning came in a message from Historian James Truslow Adams, too ill to attend the hearings in person: "Even in the United States the power of one man has become almost overwhelming. The longer it lasts, the more strongly entrenched it may become. If we break with usage and tradition and allow a man to retain such powers for twelve years in stead of eight, why not for 16, 20, or for life? Our world is changing fast and it can always be said that there is a crisis...
...ornate baroque palace of the prince-bishops at Fulda, 45 German Catholic bishops met last week in accordance with the will of the Vatican. In solemn conclave the bishops agreed, according to the German News Agency, that...
...Germany's solemn proclamation last fortnight of a total blockade, by mines and other means, of the British Isles, was followed last week by little action. Nazi planes attacked a few ships off the Irish coasts. But while Germany claimed that Britain's west-coast ports were clogged with shipping in a huge maritime traffic jam, Britain reported that food imports from Ireland (butter, eggs, cattle) were normal. Fact was, the "traffic jam" in Britain's western ports was due to the arrival there during the past months of greater masses of foods and war materials from...
Boomed the manifesto: "Alert! Germans who have their country at heart! Argentines who would see their country as powerful as ours, instead of being weak and crumbling! You have sworn to keep a solemn oath! Hear our song of victory: 'Today Germany is ours and tomorrow the whole world will be ours.' . . . We expect you to imitate the example of your brothers in Holland and Belgium...
...authority of the Lithuanian people who have spoken in a solemn referendum," replied the Russian spokesman...