Word: solemnizing
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...might have benefited from such counsel. Despite slick graphics, pulsating music and all the other hallmarks of ABC News President Roone Arledge's razzmatazz, This Morning's first week was generally awkward and error prone. After a solemn-toned introduction to a supposed report about the economic woes of American auto manufacturers, Economics Editor Dan Cordtz delivered instead a primer on currency exchange rates. Segments on successive days ascribed the singular position of "front runner" for the 1984 Democratic presidential nomination to two men, Edward Kennedy and Walter Mondale. Both anchors made frequent if trivial mistakes: once Steve...
...early mornings, as mist rose off the Potomac River, Haig often had breakfast with a guest in his seventh-floor State Department aerie, where only his soldier's voice and the ticking of an antique clock broke the solemn silence. At such encounters, his misty ambition was freed. In this fantasy, he was on Capitol Hill putting together a practical budget, making sensible deals with Speaker Tip O'Neill and the Democrats, fashioning legislative maneuvers that made things work rather than standing prettily on ideology. His mind, in these unfettered and rare interludes, was into weapons and food...
When he left the station to return to Harvard, Klingensmith made one "solemn pact" with his friends: he would tell anyone, whenever the subject came up, that they "ought to tip their gas station attendants...Generally, only very kind people--ministers and the like--tip. Even if it's only the change on a dollar, that's fine... If they're very saucy, then there's no reason to. But otherwise, they should be tipped, and tipped generally for their work in the rain...
...airports was an expected mainland bombardment by the British. The towns behind the airports remained oddly still. Buenos Aires is for the big rallies. Comodoro Rivadavia could manage only a long line of cars draped in the blue-and-white Argentine colors moving through the town in silence, as solemn as a funeral procession...
After months of bitter and frustrating delays, Western bankers and representatives of the Polish government finally signed an agreement last week that permitted Poland to stretch out the payment of $2.4 billion in loans, which were actually due last year. The solemn signing at the glass-and-aluminum-sheathed headquarters of the Dresdner Bank in Frankfurt removed one obstacle to the start of talks on extending the deadline on $4.6 billion that Poland is scheduled to repay banks and governments this year...