Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bowing out. There are no greener pastures open to 4-18 coaches, however, so Pancoast turned down the offer. Said he: "I'm the head coach of Vanderbilt until I'm told otherwise." Vanderbilt President Emmett Fields backed Pancoast, asserting that the university would not break a solemn contract...
These players, all of whom won either the Open or the PGA prior to 1970, are incensed because they believe that the exemption that accompanied their prize money was part of a solemn contract that is now being retroactively broken. As of this year these old-timers will be required to play in at least 15 tournaments and earn at least $10,000 per season to maintain their exemptions. For a septagenarian such as Sarazen, it is well-nigh impossible to meet such "performance guidelines...
...writes it down for use by some character in his play (called, appropriately enough, Deathtrap). Outlining the plot, which follows closely the plot of the play we're watching, he concedes that the first scene will probably be "heavy and stilted," and when his colorless wife launches into a solemn, didactic monologue about why their marriage hasn't worked, he cuts her short with, "We get the gist of this passage." Well, we do get the gist of that passage, and the first scene is heavy and stilted, and all that this charming self-deprecation means is that Levin...
From the scabrous slums of New Delhi to the gilded grandeur of Versailles, Jimmy Carter absorbed a hefty chunk of the world in his grinding nine-day tour of seven countries. It was a trip compounded of princes and paupers, of weighty talk and lighthearted banter, of solemn ceremony and hilarious, sometimes embarrassing slipups. The down-to-earth couple from Plains greeted the New Year by joining the royal couple of Iran in the fairyland setting of the Shah's palace, amid a whirl of dancing, conviviality and caviar. Then last week it was back to the burdens...
...great, unanswered question about Sadat's trip is whether Geneva, all of a sudden, becomes irrelevant?and perhaps even a procedural obstacle to progress in the Middle East. Despite Sadat's solemn promise to other Arab leaders that he will not negotiate a separate peace with Israel, he and Begin will almost certainly explore the possibility of a third accord that would restore more of Sinai to Egyptian control. For his part, Begin made...