Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the late-summer explosion in the stock market, American business is in a somber and cautious mood as it approaches Labor...
...mourning of Id al Fitr is traditionally followed by the exchange of sweetmeats, and festive family gatherings. But as the Israeli siege of Beirut went into its sixth week, the mood was tense and somber. In the first aerial bombardment in more than a month, Israeli warplanes three times last week conducted dive-bombing raids against predominantly Muslim West Beirut, where some 6,000 P.L.O. commandos have been sealed off, along with 500,000 residents. The main Israeli targets were P.L.O. Chief Yasser Arafat's headquarters, located in the Fakhani neighborhood south of the center of the city...
...sound of brass choirs and symphonic processionals, commencement speakers have taken their places behind campus daises across the country to offer such parting wisdom as they possessed. For the nation's 1.3 million college graduates, the advice from their distinguished elders tended to be far more somber than lighthearted. The dominant topics were the nuclear arms race, the decline of Western values, the nation's economic troubles and the dangerous tensions abroad. Polish Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa was awarded honorary degrees in absentia at Providence College in Rhode Island, Mac Murray College in Jacksonville, Ill., and Springfield College...
NIXON: Oh, you want the [sound] level, don't you? Yes. [turns very somber] Good evening, this is the 37th time I have spoken to you from this office, where so many decisions have been made that shape the history of our nation . . . Need any more? Each time I have done so to discuss with you some matter that I believe affected the nation al interest...
While the diplomats talked and British forces closed in on Port Stanley, a somber, war-weary mood replaced the earlier exuberance in Buenos Aires. The patriotic fervor seemed to have wilted like the faded blue-and-white flags that dangled from telephone wires under a winter drizzle. On hearing of the loss of Port Darwin and Goose Green last week, an almost tearful hotel desk clerk pleaded, "We simply have to win this war. No other war really mattered as much to our pride and our history as this-we must...