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Word: solemnizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speak seriously about success. Besides I don't think this is the year to beat people over the heads with serious messages." Ullman says he is looking forward to his June 15 opportunity but he has some real qualms, most notably that people might chuckle during his more solemn passages...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: The Revolution Will Not Begin on Class Day | 5/4/1977 | See Source »

...only recorded sounds of the elusive blue whale, as well as the latest hit by a herd of humpbacks-which, the Paynes have discovered, change their song each year. To the accompaniment of lapping waves, the whales sing sorrowful blues solos with a bassoon-like timbre or in solemn antiphonal chorus. The effect is sometimes humorous, often very beautiful. Album royalties go to the artists-through the Whale Fund of the New York Zoological Society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tops In Pops | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

...minute they stood in solemn silence in memory of those who have died for the cause of Palestinian statehood. Then the delegates to the plenary session of the 178-member Palestinian National Council, which convened late last week in the Arab League's blue and green tiled headquarters in Cairo, got down to business. As the Palestinians' de facto parliament, the plenary was promising to be-as Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat had earlier described it-"one of the most important meetings in Palestinian history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Arafat: Solutions, Not Theatrics | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

...full orchestra renewed in vigor in the final two images, conveying nicely the alternately sprightly and solemn tones and then rushingimpressively into "The Great Gate of Kiev," the famous climax. The gate itself was designed to commemorate the Czar's escape from an 1866 bombing, and was ornately depicted in the exhibition painting; hence the bells, gong, pounding drums and full orchestra which close the work in thrilling fashion. The orchestra, although seeming now a bit too fast in parts, ended the work with a befiting clamor of vying instruments, sounding like a celebration and evoking the patent majesty...

Author: By Richard Kreindler, | Title: Gershwin at the Great Gates | 3/17/1977 | See Source »

Handling 15 questions in 32 minutes with relaxed assurance, Jimmy Carter used his first presidential press conference to advance his favorable initial image as an open, informal but take-charge President (see following story). Carter even displayed humor on the solemn subject of engaging the Russians -and the press. "When the A.P. reporter was expelled from Moscow," the President said with a smile, "I had a first thought to retaliate by expelling the A.P. reporter from Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Carter and the Russians: Semi-Tough | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

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