Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French and Italian elections produced a somber warning for the West: democratic forces have, at best, contained the Communists' popular strength in the two countries, have not substantially reduced it. Despite all the West's efforts, there were 10 million people in France and Italy who-though not all of them were die-hard Communists-were still willing to say, at the polls, that in Communism rather than in democracy lies their hope for peace and plenty...
...week, "as that caused in the U.S. by the opening phases of the Hiss-Chambers duel . . . What reality is there now in our English assurances, in whose subtlety and strength we have taken such quiet pride? . . . Here are no lately nationalized refugee scientists, no fly-by-night fanatics making somber rendezvous ... If there is a particle of truth in the sinister rumors and speculations which have been rife, what Mr. Hydes are masked by the agreeable Dr. Jekylls whom everybody knows and likes? . . . [What can] stem the infection which the enemy appears able to inject into the bloodstream...
...good copy. She was a round-faced Georgia girl with bangs, who worked at her writing between 4 and 8 a.m., before going off to a daytime clerical job (she had lost one job when caught reading Proust). On top of that, the critics decided that her book, a somber, wide-eyed look at small-town Southern life, was really first-rate...
There's that stereotype that Harvard regularly turns out a batch of parlor pinks and eager Red recruits. It seems to have replaced the older stereotype that Harvard breeds snobs. It is laughable, but not to the somber ones who compile Reducator lists, sit on un-American activities committees, or write columns in the Hearst press...
Parliament reconvened in somber mood last week after a five-week recess. A dark, lowering sky turned afternoon into night, and a damp mist crept into the House of Commons. M.P.s had plenty to worry about-a coal shortage, a meat shortage, the shock of rearmament on Britain's bareboned economy. But one urgent question overshadowed the others...