Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia's solemn Mikhail Botvinnik, 37, who trained for the big event by spending several weeks in a rest home, all but clinched the world's chess championship (not an Olympic sport) in Moscow's Hall of Columns. Sam Reshevsky, the U.S. champion, was running third in a field of five...
...above them are the representatives of the four occupying powers. Perhaps the suggestion of both classroom and courtroom is apt. For here, Berlin's people are expected to learn the ways of democracy, and here the Big Four of World War II are supposed to sit in solemn judgment on their efforts. But, this week, it was difficult to tell who was judge, who the accused...
...force symbolized by the Vatican's majestic citadel. Perhaps the most significant political event of recent times was the Vatican's decision, while waiting for the City of God, to fight once more for the City of Man. It had openly entered politics. Italian priests issued a solemn warning: Communism is sin. Could the Communists stand up against such a moral thunderbolt...
...party's executive committee convened. Their purpose: to nominate a presidential and vice presidential candidate for election this month by the National Assembly. It seemed a foregone conclusion that Chiang would be the candidate for the presidency. The Generalissimo, who presided over the meeting, looked more solemn than usual. Mme. Chiang was in the audience. Then Chiang rose and began to speak, slowly and carefully...
Damaged Goods. Pyrene Manufacturing Co. (fire extinguishers) bought ads in newspapers all over the U.S. to deliver a solemn warning. It had just discovered that 500,000 small extinguishers it had sold might not put out fires. Reason: the chemical had gone bad. Advised Pyrene: have them replaced without charge...