Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little more than three hours after the polls had closed, U.S. Senator Irving Ives stepped before 200 Republicans in the ballroom of Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel. Wearing a somber smile, Ives conceded that Democrat Averell Harriman had defeated him in the race for the most important governorship in the U.S. Projection of returns already counted showed that the Democratic candidate would win by more than 200,000 votes. Ives said that he had just wired his opponent: "It was a great fight; congratulations and best wishes." Two blocks away, at the Biltmore, Harriman's excited supporters pushed...
...Gibbon, Macaulay and his mentor, G. M. Trevelyan. The first two volumes (TIME, Dec. i, 1952) told how the half-civilized Prankish warriors, massacring Saracens on the walls of Jerusalem and Tyre, won dazzling triumphs and founded a kingdom in the Holy Land. The concluding volume relates the somber story of how the warrior pilgrims, having lost the Holy City while squabbling over lands and trade, also lost their crusading fervor...
Increased mobility, then, presents a somber problem to the Dartmouth officials. When a student was killed last spring, his demolished car was displayed on the college green. This was followed only by another fatal accident. So, despite mumblings from the student body, increasingly stringent auto regulations are being imposed on the 30 percent of the students who drive...
Easy Go. Powell's pressing need for money was explained, in part, by a Damon Runyonesque witness: Wardwell Dexter, onetime bookie commission man, whose yellow, shortsleeved shirt brightened the somber Senate caucus room. Dexter related that Powell made racing bets by phone almost every day, averaging $100 or more daily for a time. Sometimes he did not pay the losses. One day he bet $1,500, and lost. "What was your relationship with Clyde Powell?" he was asked. "Unfortunate," replied Dexter, summing...
...contrast, the tone of Holland's visit to Chile was somber and serious. President Carlos Ibáñez, bucking an anti-Administration majority in Congress, has been helpless to curb Chile's feverish inflation. Of a comprehensive economic program he offered. Congress passed only a sales tax. Unionists, 520,000 strong (in a country of 6,100,000), reacted to that with strikes. Starting in August, copper miners closed down the big mining industry, and government revenues from copper exports vanished. Ibáñez forced the miners back to work by threatening to draft them into...