Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decline in real income from both of these sources, coupled as it has been with inflation and a depressed stock market provoked a rather somber forecast by Hale Champion, financial vice president, in the annual financial report released last November...
...lovely bit of rascality-brief, definable, rightly punishable and done on the high seas, where U.S. men and machines still reign. The White House in its spring splendor looked like a Hollywood set. With somber visages and firm jaws, the actors hurried through the mellow night in their sleek black limousines. House Speaker Carl Albert, 5 ft. 5 in. tall, seemed at least 5 ft. 8 in. as he pondered American prestige on the White House steps. Senator John Sparkman was besieged by reporters after the President had told him the scenario for recapturing the ship and its crew. Others...
...after day, as artillery fire thundered a somber greeting from a nearby range, the buses disgorged their weary passengers. Vietnamese refugees were arriving at their first destination in America: Camp Pendleton in Southern California. Small-businessmen and Saigon bureaucrats, their faces etched with fatigue and suffering, their tight-lipped wives stifling tears, their children staring blankly in the bright sunlight, filed into the camp. There they were issued mattresses, bedclothes and kits containing toilet articles, sandals and one candy bar each. Inside the tents and Quonset huts hastily erected for the emergency, the refugees finally gave way to emotions stored...
...Somber Mood. The ploy is certainly not lost on the enemy. Despite a perfect day of cloudless skies, beckoning beaches and flowering fields, Israel marked its 27th Independence Day last week in a distinctly somber mood. Anxious about any change in their relations with the U.S., the Israelis sent Foreign Minister Yigal Allon on an American fund-raising tour, which, not incidentally, will enable him to evaluate Washington's "reassessment" of its Middle East policy. Already, the Ford Administration has decided to hold back on sales of the Lance surface-to-surface missile and the F-15 fighter...
...sense of cost and continuity was a somber reminder to the audience that after 26 years, this might be the last N.B.A. ceremony. Plagued by rising costs and dwindling support, derived mainly from the Association of American Publishers, the National Book Committee, which long sponsored the awards, last year went out of business. The 1975 N.B.A. ceremonies, in fact, took place only because Roger Stevens, chairman of the committee on awards policy, personally guaranteed expenses. Whether or not he can save the awards is still very much in doubt...