Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House where some 400 Congressmen, Cabinet members and the trio's staff had hastily assembled. His face ashen with fatigue but punctuated by repeated smiles, Carter announced the broad outlines of the two agreements, declaring, "My hope is that the promise of this moment will be fulfilled." Sadat, initially somber, was almost reverential in his praise of Carter for calling the summit. Said he: "You took a gigantic step...
...this fall's revival of the neatly proportioned, high-glamour image of the '40s, the little hats of yesteryear are once again topping off designer collections in Paris and the U.S. Scorned for over a decade as too matronly or dressy, hats are no longer worn with somber propriety but with a playful insouciance that adds a dash of humor to the sophisticated silhouette. Tipped forward on the head at a rakish angle and frequently garnished with feathers and fur, the new hats are, as Couturier Karl Lagerfeld of Chloé says, "little jokes to be worn like...
Whatever the source of his chagrin, Gicquel was soon out-Cronkiting Cronkite. The somber, chain-smoking Frenchman has brought an unprecedented measure of subtle and sometimes anti-government editorializing to French TV news-to the chagrin of about 75 viewers each week who write him to protest. He delivers himself of stronger opinions off-camera. Last year he produced a serious book about the impact of TV on French society. Called Violence and Fear, it has become a bestseller...
...somber roster of people suffering the effects of Agent Orange has not deterred the U.S. Department of Agriculture from using a weakened form of Agent Orange, 2,4,5-T, to spray forests, rangelands and pastures in the United States. The Pacific Northwest bears the brunt of the spraying, but Wisconsin, Minnesota, West Virginia and other heavily forested states endure the dousings as well...
...claustrophobic family life could inspire brilliant satire. Whether they could inspire tragedy remained in doubt until Julia Markus addressed herself to the theme of growing up Jewish in Jersey City. Tragedy requires the decline of a hero, and Markus has invented one-however low key-in this somber, eloquent novel: Irving Bender, the son of East European Jews for whom the immigrant dream of success had come to nothing. "Irv's father drank and gambled and died," she writes in her terse idiom. "The mother got along; she got along. Education was life to his mother...