Word: somber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State Department auditorium. He was on the fourth page of the seven-page statement when he was told that the TV cameras were on. He coolly continued to read through to the end before he rose and pushed open the door. It was a worn and somber-looking John Kennedy who stepped before the record crowd (426) for a press conference...
...rides the family mare into the sea--and is left, stoically resigned to life, with two unmarried daughters. ("They are all gone now, and there isn't anything more the sea can do to me. We must be satisfied.") And that's all there is to it: quiet, somber, and rather dull. Only at the end, when Maurya finds herself released from the oppression of the sea, does either the play or the opera seem particularly compelling or particularly real...
...massive rectangles of Elysium, with their varied thicknesses and textures, are both somber and subtle. They glow before the eye, drop back into space. As the eye moves about them, they in turn seem to move in relation to one another...
...first time since Khrushchev's shoe-banging session, the U.N.'s 99 members gathered in Manhattan for another meeting of the General Assembly. They did so in a somber and disheartened mood that posed the question whether the U.N. can long survive as an effective body...
...economy from sinking into stagnation. Even after the splendid performance of the U.S. economy in World War II (in part because of planning, in part in spite of it), economists tended to take a melancholy view of what lay ahead, predicted massive transitional unemployment. It was against this somber background that Congress passed the Employment Act of 1946, making it a "responsibility" of the Federal Government "to promote maximum employment, production and purchasing power," and creating the Council of Economic Advisers...