Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Symphony Orchestra played the great funeral march from Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony. The black, copper coffin was placed upon a gun carriage and draped with the single-starred banner of the Republic. Then the cortege moved to Santiago Cathedral, where Archbishop Jose Maria Caro celebrated a two-hour Solemn High Mass for the soul of the man who had fixed low prices for the bread upon which millions of Chileans chiefly depend...
Said General Wood with undeniable truth: "Each step thus far taken in the international situation has been upon the solemn assurance that it was for the pur pose of preserving peace. Actually, we have been led to the brink of a devastating war. . . . This subterfuge must end. We must now squarely face the real issue, war or peace...
...General Wood and the idealistic quandary of President Roosevelt, most U.S. emotion and attention was centered. General Wood's blunt words did not leave enough room for U.S. reactions to such Nazi blows as the killing of hostages, the speed and power of the Nazi conquests. The solemn words of President Roosevelt did not take in enough of the practical, blundering world of Congressmen, isolationists, and people who look with abhorrence on fighting...
...Amen," said solemn Floyd...
Prime aim of Nazi education, Ziemer found, is to fire Germans with zeal to give up their lives for Adolf Hitler. A German boy takes his first solemn oath to die for the Führer at six, repeats...