Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long, sharp session, and just one day before its first birthday, the Committee picked up the solemn request of the Assembly, made three weeks before, and formally declared itself to be the Provisional Government of the French Republic. Many Committeemen had previously opposed the change; only the barbs from London and Washington goaded them into making it now. The gauntlet was down; Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill would have to decide whether to pick it up, try to kick it aside, or ignore...
...noontime opening of a session. He gives a backslap here, a glad hand there, pausing to drop a witticism at this Senator's desk, an encouraging word of counsel at another's, to confer now gravely, now casually -dynamic, carefree, yet occasionally sober under the solemn responsibilities of statesmanship. Here, it seems from the gallery, is the very picture of a wise and charming legislator, beloved of his colleagues, happily resuming his daily burden...
This week naval airmen heard a rumor about Marc Mitscher that had them quietly simmering. Wizened, solemn little Admiral Mitscher, who has been a naval airman since 1916, who commanded the carrier Hornet, "Shangrila" of the Tokyo raid, who commanded the carrier task forces which spectacularly raided Truk, Guam, Palau, is due-said the rumor-to be yanked out of the Pacific...
...adjustment which struck De Gaulle as a backward step, he drew himself to his full, unshapely height: "Mr. Prime Minister, now that at last you have Joan of Arc on your side, you are still determined to burn her." As time went on, Churchill's patience with his solemn, intransigent protege wore thinner and thinner...
...Many a solemn proponent of the free enterprise system, knowing how difficult it is in 1944 to build up an adequate capital position for executives, in order to make good corporate management worthwhile, pondered and argued the question: how can U.S. business pay its top men the salaries they are really worth? But while slow-moving conservatives pondered, fast-moving Harry Sinclair might well smile...