Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taking Mr. Shaw's lead, one of TIME'S editors has written the following political fairy tale. Since fairy tales, like more solemn reports, have their implications and their moral, TIME wishes to make it clear that it admires and respects our heroic ally, recognizes great mutuality of interests between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.-but that in any argument between Communism and Democracy, TIME is on the side of Democracy...
...they found they taste like rabbit). In the camp's black market they had bartered diamond rings and watches for condensed milk and rice, had paid thousands of dollars for food the Jap guards stole from the camp storehouse. Additional supplies were smuggled past Jap guards by solemn-faced stretcher-bearers...
...succeeds is solemn, starched, 65-year-old Lieut. General Ben Lear. Before the war Ben Lear was a good training officer, made national headlines by marching the rowdy spirits out of a battalion of trainees who went too far in yoo-hooing at girls on a Memphis golf links-where the General happened to be golfing. Lear's new assignment: Deputy Commander to General Ike Eisenhower...
...public. Those below could not notice, but those on the portico could see what a supreme effort it takes to hoist himself up. He rose. Spurning a cape offered by his son James, he walked to the black podium, bareheaded and in a blue suit. He was grave and solemn. His big shoulders and his suntanned face with the resolute jaw were all that was visible to the crowd below. Immediately below the portico were 7,806 invited guests, including the Roosevelt grandchildren (see cut);* in the Ellipse stood 3,000 more. The President gazed at the crowd, then lifted...
...solemn meeting of the nation's wartime leaders. The President was flanked by General George Marshall, Fleet Admiral Ernest King, Home Front Czar James Byrnes. Top men of the House and Senate military affairs committees had been called in to listen. At that meeting, held at the White House one day last week, Franklin Roosevelt once again asked for a national service...