Word: somberly
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...PEACE WAS AT HAND, WHY DID ITS makers look so somber? The three Balkan Presidents were pale and hollow-eyed as they gathered behind the diplomatic table at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, last week. When Alija Izetbegovic of Bosnia and Herzegovina walked to his chair, he focused his gaze downward and barely touched the proffered hands of his counterparts, Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia and Franjo Tudjman of Croatia. As the three leaders initialed the stacks of documents that would end the 44-month war among these South Slavs, each gave the impression he was sitting behind...
...audience was reflective and somber and sad. There were lots of tears," said Director of Hillel Bernard Steinberg, who delivered the invocation at the service. "This [service] was to acknowledge the loss of a great man and to express what we feel is a vacuum in a storm...
...blood supply to the heart that early last summer had sent him to the hospital for two weeks and kept him out of work for nearly a month. For the next several days, Yeltsin was in virtual isolation, seeing only his doctors, family and bodyguards. His aides, looking somber, gave assurances that the President was still in charge, but it was unclear how he could be making decisions and reviewing documents when aides were forbidden to see him. Clearly, Yeltsin's condition is serious, and that prompts a serious question: even if he survives physically, can he survive politically...
Harvard matched UConn (17-1-2) for most of the first half, but a goal in the final minute of the period set the somber tone for the rest of the game...
...very somber group once the news came out," center Kent Hull said. "I can't think of a finer person than Mary Levy, and I just hate that he has to go through this...