Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anyone who has watched the leaves in Central Park turn slowly through somber autumn shades to brown and finally, wrinkled and dark like an old man's face, drop spinning to the ground, knows something of that special feeling one gets at the changing of the seasons. I often regret that I don't visit New York in autumn very much nowadays--my workplace is a fiery 1000 miles away, straight down--but I always remember with fondness my trips there of the past...
...have to give credit to the Harvard front eight," Ryan said in a somber press conference at game's end. "They come after the quarterback a lot. When they do that they also play man-to-man defense, and the defensive backs did a good job. They were one-on-one [with the Yale receivers] out there...
...however, disputes Takeshita's mastery of the intricacies of Japanese domestic politics. For 400 years members of the Takeshita family have run matters in the mountain town of Kakeyamachi (pop. 4,500) on the western side of Japan. With politics in his blood, the somber young man worked his way up from the grass roots into the upper hierarchy of the L.D.P., winning a seat in the Diet in 1958 and serving as Finance Minister under two Prime Ministers. Last year he became the party's secretary general. "Takeshita knew everyone's name," says a government official. "Unlike other politicians...
...Warren H. Phillips, chairman and chief executive of the parent Dow Jones & Co., a low-keyed fellow who in his own eight years as managing editor of the Journal discovered that managing editors simply disregard the elephant of the editorial page. Yet as the boss, he encourages such somber trumpetings as a recent editorial branding the President's peace initiation as "Reagan's Bay , of Pigs." ("Barring some dramatic event, Nicaragua was lost once and for all to the Communist empire...
...After a somber and sometimes impassioned debate, the House of Representatives last week voted 243 to 141 to issue a formal apology to the 120,000 Japanese Americans who were forcibly sent to resettlement camps in World War II. In addition, the resolution provides $50 million for a fund to educate the public about the detainment program and a controversial $1.2 billion in restitution payments to the approximately 60,000 survivors of the camps...