Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this was solemn embroidery around grimly settled fact. Germany wages war not by The Hague rules but by Hitler's rules: no holds barred. And Britons, not being fools, will retort in kind...
...Said a solemn statement, published last week in the Communist Daily Worker (circ. 48,601) over the signatures of Chairman William Zebulon Foster and Secretary Earl Browder of the Communist Party: "As of today's issue ... the Daily Worker . . . ceases to be the official central organ of the Communist Party. We believe . . . that the Daily Worker merits and should receive the ... continued . . . support of all American progressives . . . including of course the Communist Party...
...Oklahoma's solemn Don McNeill, U. S. Intercollegiate champion: the Meadow Club tennis tournament, major tuneup for the National Singles championship; defeating (6-4, 6-3, 6-3) California's frivolous Frank Kovacs, who had drubbed U. S. Champion Bobby Riggs in the semifinals; at Southampton, L. I. After the conventional handshake, Clown Kovacs got McNeill to join him in a characteristically irreverent Kovacs pose...
Cuba's sticky tropical heat hung heavily over Havana last week, wilted the neat white suits of solemn Pan-American Conference delegates, kindled explosive oaths in the voices of bustling foreign newsmen, sent little rivulets of perspiration streaming down the beaming faces of 5,000 convening Lions. But the vibrating activity of Havana rose with the temperature as the Conference week rolled on to completion...
...oldtime whiskey tenor crouched closer to his radio one night last week. Reason: the finals of the Second Annual National Championship for Barber Shop Quartets, broadcast from the New York World's Fair. All week winners of sectional contests had crooned, bleated and harmonized before a tableful of solemn judges. The performance to beat, all knew, was the precise, satin-smooth Just a Dream of You and Mandy Lee of last year's champs, the mustachioed, white-aproned Phillips "66" Barflies of Bartlesville, Okla. Most favored challengers were the Flat Foot Four, a quartet of Oklahoma City cops...