Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, 77, squat, solemn Soviet marshal dubbed "the Eisenhower of Russia"; of a heart attack; in Moscow. Zhukov fought in World War I as a Czarist dragoon, in 1918 suited up as a Red Army cavalryman. After weathering both the shift to mechanized warfare and Stalin's purges of military professionals, Zhukov was Chief of Staff when Hitler first trained his guns on the U.S.S.R. In 1941 the marshal smashed the myth of Nazi invincibility by engineering the defense of Moscow with a flood of Siberian troops, and later won the great battles of Stalingrad, Leningrad...
...news conference the next morning when he announced his intention to continue in pursuit of the tapes, Cox spoke quietly but firmly. "For me to comply to those instructions would violate my solemn pledge to the Senate and the country to invoke judicial process to challenge exaggerated claims of executive privilege. I shall not violate my promise," he said...
...with the Chinese. Although some Chinese students attend the institute, they have separate classes and their own dormitory and mess hall. There are also limits on how much the foreign students can socialize with each other. Early on, an institute official decreed that relations between the sexes must be "solemn and legitimate." Men and women sleep in segregated dormitories, two to a room. To make sure things stay that way, the women's residence is padlocked each night at 10 p.m. "It's like being in the army," says one Canadian. "You ask why they have a certain...
...House Judiciary Committee in a solemn televised ceremony began formally to consider "whether sufficient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise its constitutional power to impeach Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States of America." Given the reaction to the President's transcripts, the committee's hearings on the evidence against Nixon may well be outrun by events. But if Nixon refuses to yield to the rising clamor for his resignation, the months-long constitutional process seemed more likely than ever before to lead to his removal. Even staunch Nixon supporters found it hard to name...
...Cambodian problem created by the Nixon administration's war of aggression can't be resolved except through Sihanouk's five-point Solemn Declaration of March...