Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They talked of many things, mostly along the familiar party line. Then the correspondent volunteered a Solemn Thought: "I have seen in many provinces how you Chinese Communists have the only perfect defense in the world against the atomic bomb. You have a government that can live so dispersed among the people that even the entire stockpile of bombs in America couldn't wipe your government...
...Wondering." While Stefan pondered, visitors to the Senate's Civil Service Committee room observed a bit of drama. Before the committee appeared solemn little Assistant Attorney General Wendell Berge, asking for an extra $600,000 for the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division. Mr. Berge was quite miserable...
Looking around at what many fanciful talespinners had described as a northern Shangrila, Berton came to this solemn conclusion: "O credulous and gullible world . . . the vale that set your soul aflame with the fire of adventure exists only in your own imagination...
...fiery, tiny (4 ft. 10 in.) Minister of Education, was dead. To her colleagues in the Cabinet, many of whom were tired or ailing, her death at 55 was more than the loss of an able and courageous fighter for the Party's causes: it was also a solemn warning. She had been in a hospital for 24 hours with bronchitis; there her fatigued heart had collapsed...
...Afrikaans language (they could all now say a cheery "How do you do?"-Hoe gaan dit?-to their hosts) while Britain's leading designers, Hartnell, Molyneux and Thaarup, labored feverishly on trousseaux. Fashion reporters were invited to see the new clothes but editors had to sign a solemn promise that the clothes would not be described until the royal ladies had appeared in them. Meanwhile, hints kept Britain's newspaper readers in more or less breathless anticipation...