Word: solemnizing
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...President's responsibility is firmly fixed in the Constitution: "He shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed." In a stinging 450-page report certain to trigger heated controversy, a majority of the congressional Iran-contra committees this week will charge that Ronald Reagan failed to fulfill that solemn obligation. Says Warren Rudman, the feisty New Hampshire Senator who was one of three Republicans to join the 18-member majority: "The report deals with the responsibilities of the presidency, and I think it's fair...
...third-degree coughs and sniffles. "I'm sick as a dog," he growls. The dense smoke on the fire line in Northern California's Klamath National Forest has cut visibility to a lung-searing 150 ft. It is eclipsing the sun like a primordial fog and slowly choking the solemn line of fire fighters. Brand, 26, from Kentfield, Calif., pauses occasionally on the steep slope to vomit discreetly in the woods. "This is unhealthy as hell," he says, directing his crew toward a smoldering hot spot. "But I love fighting fires. When these things get going, the adrenaline really kicks...
After the game, Teevens had a solemn discussion with his team. "I wanted to say a couple of things to the players to make them think about what was going on and where we were going from here," Teevens said...
...true that Ronald Reagan and Daniel Ortega Saavedra have nothing in common. Both hold passionate beliefs. They just happen to believe exactly opposite things, as two emotional speeches demonstrated anew last week. "I make a solemn vow," Reagan promised at an Organization of American States (OAS) meeting in Washington. "As long as there is breath in this body, I will speak and work, strive and struggle for the cause of the Nicaraguan freedom fighters." Specifically, Reagan pledged, he will fight for $270 million in renewed military and humanitarian aid to the contras to enable them to continue battling the Sandinista...
...brief turn as the American hypnotist/therapist Maurice consults in hope of a "cure" for his homosexuality, seems as if he's perfectly settled into his role. With his ridiculous advice to Maurice--"go take some exercise, go stroll around with a gun"--Kingsley's Doctor injects a less solemn note into a movie that could really use some gaiety...