Word: solemnness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DOING OUR UTMOST . . . TO RUSH AIR SUPPORT TO YOU, cabled Marshall, who specified that 140 planes had been shipped to Manila. But he never told MacArthur when they were later diverted to Australia. To Quezon and his people, Roosevelt publicly gave "my solemn pledge that their freedom will be retained. The entire resources . . . of the United States stand behind that pledge." Added Secretary of War Henry Stimson: "Your gallant defense is thrilling the American people. As soon as our power is organized, we shall come in force and drive the invader from your soil." So MacArthur told his trapped...
...Israelis, Palestinians and other Arabs, sworn blood enemies for more than four decades, were sitting around a table, talking. The speechmaking in the tapestry-hung Hall of Columns of the Royal Palace in Madrid that opened the Middle East peace conference was, like a wedding or a baptism, a solemn rite symbolizing a new beginning. Come what may, the Mideast crisis, perhaps the longest-running and most envenomed in the world, had passed the point where the antagonists would not even talk...
...proceedings began well, with a suitably solemn prayer by the Reverend Peter J. Gomes, and with a deliciously irreverent talk by President Hanna H. Gray of the University of Chicago. The next two speeches were also good...
Among most of the people whose paths Hill has crossed, she has left behind the impression of quiet but unquestionable achievement and a sober but not solemn disposition. She dates, though not a lot. She enjoys a laugh, though she doesn't tell the jokes. The youngest of 13 children in a devout Baptist family, she grew up near Morris, Okla., a small town (pop. 1,200) where her father raised cattle and farmed cotton, soybeans and peanuts on 240 acres. She remains close to her family, most of whom flew to Washington last week to support...
...Security Council denounced the incident as a violation of the cease-fire agreement that ended the gulf war, and George Bush thundered, "We can't permit this brutal bully ((Saddam Hussein)) to go back on this solemn agreement." In theory, the U.S. and its allies could resume air attacks if Saddam does not turn over the calutrons and any other bombmaking gear for destruction, as the cease-fire resolution commands. At minimum, they will continue the trade embargo that is strangling the Iraqi economy...