Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...race for independence, the tricky, smiling Burmans last week forged ahead of their solemn Indian neighbors. A Burman delegation prepared to leave London after quickly getting almost everything-short of outright independence-that it had come for. The process had been relatively quiet and painless, although at times it was a bit embarrassing to all concerned, like Sir Hubert Elvin Ranee's reception...
Fear & Terrorism. The first dramatic moment of the dramatic session came when Matteo Matteotti, 25, son of Italy's famous anti-Fascist martyr (TIME, Aug. 7, 1944), moved to the speaker's microphone. His wide mouth and slightly jutting jaw firmly set, his deep-set eyes solemn and stern, young Matteotti charged Nenni's party leadership with spreading "fear and terrorism," and denounced the Congress as illegal. The delegates rose and screamed: "Degenerate son!" But Matteotti doggedly finished his job, handed the presiding officer what he called documentation proving Nenni's terroristic methods, and calmly walked...
...British Empire in a sticky little war. Mohamed Ahmed, who had declared himself the Mahdi, the long-awaited messiah of Islamic tradition, had whipped his dervish followers into a frenzied jihad (holy war) against the Sudan's Egyptian rulers. Since Egypt was under British occupation, Britain sent solemn, Bible-reading General Charles George ("Chinese") Gordon* to restore order. Instead, the fanatical dervishes bottled up the undermanned British garrison in Khartoum, hacked Gordon to death with their swords...
...listed specific progress in setting up the rules of law: these, he said, "must carry clear and adequate safeguards to protect complying states from the hazards of violations and evasions. ... If a nation by solemn treaty agrees to a plan for the control of atomic weapons, and agrees that a violation of that treaty shall be punished, it is difficult for me to understand why that nation cannot agree to waive the right to exercise the veto power should it be charged with
...Casey Dennis is made the goat, although he has done only what appeared to him to be his duty. Old A.A.F. hands may think they recognize certain incidents and characters in Command Decision, but Novelist William Wister Haines (Slim, High Tension) says in the customary solemn foreword that they are all dreamed up. An old A.A.F. hand him self, he was long enough (33 months) at Eighth Air Force and Strategic Air Forces headquarters to learn something of the woes of staff and command. His story is a little stagey here & there (the entrances & exits are particularly...