Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from another irate letter-writer, George Rehin '52. He wrote, "They would have all of us dress alike, behave alike in class and thing alike. There will come a day when all Yalemen must dress like spooks on Tap Day, sit rigid in the class room with the somber and vacant stares of mechanical men, file with military precision into the dining halls, and never touch women or liquor after...
...world's great agricultural countries, it now finds itself with almost nothing to sell abroad. Inflation is running wild at home, with prices jumping at an average rate of 3% a month. Last week Peron finally changed course and-began to face the facts. In a somber speech to the nation he proclaimed a program of "inflexible austerity," of sacrifice, of less food and more work. For the famed Republic of Beef, the meatless day announced four weeks ago had seemed almost like a joke in poor taste. Now Peron decreed two meatless days each week, and to make...
...Papa. Elizabeth the Queen, a girl of 25 who had lost her father, might have been pardoned for not altogether sharing her subjects' mood of renewed hope. On the afternoon of the proclamation, in somber black, she and Philip climbed into the back seat of her crested Rolls-Royce, and headed for Sandringham...
...Wallace hit on in 1920; simplified, condensed articles, most of them striking a note of hope, the whole interspersed with pifhy saws or chuckly items. It tries to minimize the negative and accentuate the positive. The Digest has always been careful not to burden its readers with somber or brain-taxing articles. But the Digest is no longer really a digest. More than half its articles now are written by Digest authors; some of these are "planted" in other magazines so that the Digest can later "reprint" them. Overall, the Digest leans heavily on the chatty, the cheerful and what...
...post-war University man is a far more somber, tense character than his bell-raising predecessor of the twenties or his inflamed, rabble-rousing brother of the New Deal thirties. The contemporary student worries. He worries about the draft, about the world situation, about the lack of values, and most of all, about the dim, dim future...