Word: solemnizing
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...first time in 105 years, a committee of the House of Representatives assembled last week to begin an inquiry into the possible impeachment of the President of the U.S. Like many historic occasions, this one began with relatively obscure preliminaries and routine, undramatic details. Unlike the solemn moment of nonpartisan statesmanship that was clearly called for, however, the first full-scale meeting of the House Judiciary Committee devoted to the impeachment question produced a round of unfortunate bickering between Democrats and Republicans and a vote recorded along strict party lines. The committee's chances for future cooperation were hardly...
Striding with a fixed smile into a solemn gathering of newsmen, Nixon confronted television cameras and declared that he had been the victim of reporting that he assailed variously as "outrageous, vicious, distorted, frantic and hysterical" (see Hugh Sidey on the press conference, page 23). Perspiring and barely containing his anger at times, Nixon insisted that "the tougher it gets, the cooler I get." The recent scandal-inspired shocks that have so jolted the nation "will not affect me and my doing my job," he said. He had been through so much controversy ("it has been my lot") that "when...
Outraged that the Egyptian attack was launched on Yom Kippur, the solemn Jewish Day of Atonement, Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban called it "blasphemous." The Grand Sheik Abdel Halim Mahmoud, Egypt's highest religious authority, proclaimed the war a jihad, a holy war. "We are fighting as the early Moslems fought against the infidels," he declared in Cairo's Al Azhar mosque. "All the dead in battle are sure of paradise." In Saudi Arabia, the Interior Ministry urged its citizens to "destroy the enemies of religion...
...enmeshing the superpowers, became all too apparent. However distant and as yet only indirectly involving the U.S., the war between Israel and its Arab neighbors could hold greater peril for Americans 14 than The School for Scandal drama unreeling in Washington. Public reaction to the fighting was more solemn and subdued-and notably less partisan-than during the quick Israeli triumph of 1967, when even the most disinterested observer had to admire that small country's masterful military effort. This time fear and reluctance about involvement were far stronger. The so-far inconclusive struggle upset and troubled Israel...
...fighting started on the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, the most solemn moment in the Jewish religious year, and it continued beyond Sukkoth, the Feast of Tabernacles, when Jews traditionally celebrate Moses' passage through the Sinai desert 3,300 years...