Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assurance he gave with all the power he could command: "I give you this most solemn assurance: there is no secret treaty, no secret obligation, no secret commitment, no secret understanding in any shape or form, direct or indirect ... to involve this nation in any war or for any other purpose...
...potent Army offensive weapon in 1925, goalposts in the end zones in a game supposed to have taken place in 1913. In 1940 spectators with weightier matters on their minds may have a hard time taking seriously for an hour and thirty-eight minutes the Warners' solemn anxieties about the South Bend ball club...
...World War II, III. . . :) the coming Caesars, victors over Capital; 3) declining birth rates; 4) decay of art from high style to petty cult problems; 5) budgets of billions not millions; 6) suicidal crumbling of democracy, etc. He did not predict imminent collapse of Western civilization. Said solemn Prophet Spengler: "We are still many generations short of that point...
...radio messages compelling for their sincerity and understanding, President Roosevelt and Mr. Willkie have addressed the youth of this nation at a "solemn and historic moment...
...spectacle of the last world war fitted me with horror. I came out of it with one conviction: we must at all costs avoid any renewal of such atrocities. . . . This is the vow I made, a solemn vow: "I swear I shall always do everything in my power to prevent the outbreak of another...