Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was little rejoicing by the Dutch government. Looking somber and tired, Prime Minister Joop den Uyl appeared on television to explain that "violence proved necessary to put an end to the hostage seizure" because weeks of negotiations with the hijackers had reached an impasse. Justice Minister Andreas van Agt, who with the prime Minister headed the crisis team dealing with the terrorists, made his own appeal for understanding of the difficult decision. "I beseech you to believe there was no other way," he said at a press conference. "We tried everything-every path of dialogue that there might...
...their native Georgia still clings, as it were, to their shoes, their accents and their lifestyles. They relish politics more for the pleasure than the power, more for the gambol than the glory. They are almost indecently at ease in the White House; nobody has told them what a somber place it is supposed to be. Though they may not reflect the substance of the Carter presidency, they are the living image of its down-home style...
Just how close are Burns and Carter? Liberals fear that they might be turning into the political Odd Couple of all time-Carter the grinning lifelong Democrat; Burns the somber, smoke-wreathed Republican. Burns, after all, was Dwight Eisenhower's chief economic adviser, Richard Nixon's Counsellor and, though theoretically removed from politics when he was named Federal Reserve chairman in 1970, a close confidant of Gerald Ford's. During the campaign, Candidate Carter rapped Burns' Federal Reserve for its conservative monetary policies. He also made much of a proposal to make the term...
Most striking, Carter on Monday night spoke in somber Churchillian tones of sacrifices for everybody-but by week's end the White House indicated the sacrifices would not be financial, and indeed the program would save consumers money. A statement issued Friday night contended that without the program the average family's energy bill in 1985 would be $1,367; Carter's proposals would cut that figure 16%, to $1,145. That contention is highly debatable: it assumes that conversion to coal would free "old" and inexpensive natural gas now burned by industry to flow to homeowners...
...nine black-robed Justices walked purposefully to their places at the U.S. Supreme Court bench last week, the ornate courtroom seemed even more somber than usual. Nine months before, the court had allowed the imposition of the death penalty for murder. Now it was being asked to permit capital punishment for crimes in which no life has been taken. The state of Georgia was seeking permission to electrocute Ehrlich Anthony Coker for the rape of a 16-year-old housewife...