Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next night, to the U.S. armed forces, the President broadcast another solemn message: "War must be abolished from the earth if the earth, as we know it, is to remain. Civilization cannot survive another total war. . . . We depend on you, who have known war in all its horror, to keep this nation aware that only through cooperation among all nations can any nation remain wholly secure...
...garb and call them "dancing nuns." I am going to correct you. These women are not nuns at all, but members of various religious congregations or institutes, and as such pronounce only simple vows at their religious profession. A nun is a member of a religious order and takes solemn vows. There are other differences, too. But, canonically speaking, a nun and a sister are not the same thing. I have noticed before, and often too, that you have made this same mistake. Perhaps, though, as a stripteaser with a traveling carnival, I shouldn't correct your unctuous religion...
...London's County Hall, debate was heated, committee meetings solemn with high hope and great responsibility. Hard working delegates, unable to get taxis after late night sessions, stoically bedded down in an A.R.P. shelter. In spite of all this earnest effort, UNRRA's governing council finished its semiannual meeting almost exactly where it had started...
...Japs had already offered to surrender when the New York Herald Tribune's solemn, bespectacled Homer Bigart last week climbed into a Japan-bound B29. He wanted to see how the flyers felt on such a mission...
...every U.S. citizen, as well as to every statesman, the victory of peace had a solemn urgency it had never had before. In London, Winston Churchill said: "We must indeed pray that these awful agencies will be made to conduce to peace among nations and that, instead of wreaking measureless havoc upon the entire globe, they may become the perennial fountain of world prosperity...