Word: somber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...somber string bean from the Wairarapa district of New Zealand, Bob Charles, 27, belongs to an exclusive minority-he is a lefthanded golfer on the U.S. pro tour. That alone is enough to make him the hero of 400,000 amateur lefties who wire him encouragement and even dip into the cooky jar to bet on their boy against the likes of Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus. Those bets have begun to pay off. Last April Charles became the first left-hander ever to win a major pro tournament when he took the $10,000 top money in the Houston...
...this time, no one was more enthusiastic about deporting people than Palmer, who was at last enjoying favorable publicity. But as quickly as it flared, the Red Scare subsided. Though Palmer's sleuths kept predicting more terrorism, it never came. When the Justice Department issued somber warnings that May Day 1920 would be marked by unprecedented violence and not a firecracker went off, Palmer was ridiculed in the press. Businessmen began to worry that immigrant labor might dry up, and the press, which only a few months before had been fanning the hysteria, ran sober stories about the importance...
...spirit of the earliest Commencement days, as of the early College, was largely chaparoned by theology--the presence of a formidable portion of the local clergy caused those first occasions to be rather pious and somber. But the joyous aspects of graduation increased steadily and by the end of the seventeenth century, commencement had become the main spectacle of the New England...
Winter Light. Ingmar Bergman probes deeper into religious philosophy in this somber and icily beautiful film about an afternoon in the life of a Swedish pastor who finds himself unable to help or love others because he fears that he himself is beyond the help or love...
Winter Light. Ingmar Bergman probes deeper into religious philosophy in this relentlessly somber and icily beautiful film about an afternoon in the life of a Swedish pastor who finds himself unable to help or love others because he fears that he himself is beyond the help or love...