Word: somberly
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Mutual deterrence. Against a sound track of feet crunching in the snow, the camera pans over a virgin white expanse to the shadow of a man. A somber voice-over intones, "After 20 years of walking in the footsteps of giants, isn't it odd that George Bush has left no footprints at all? It's almost like he was never there." This TV commercial had not been used, but Dole aides artfully leaked news of its existence last week. They called it their "tactical nuclear weapon," ready to air if Bush tried any negative ploy or increased his lead...
...populous nation to a ( small island off the mainland of China. Shortly after 8 p.m. last Wednesday, programming on Taiwan's government-owned television and radio stations was suddenly interrupted. Premier Yu Kuo-hwa was shown addressing the central standing committee of the ruling Kuomintang (Nationalist Party). Speaking in somber, measured tones, he announced that President Chiang Ching-kuo, 77, son of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, had died of heart failure in Taipei, the capital. A few minutes later, Vice President Lee Teng-hui, already sworn in as Chiang's successor, called on his fellow citizens to "unite together...
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...