Word: somberly
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...past couple of years, the squad has changed from a bunch of swimmers having fun practicing polo together to something of a truly coherent team. Even so, the attitude is still loose enough that the captain's role is more that of all-purpose friend rather than somber team leader...
...agenda. Nonetheless, the New Right leadership last week saw no need to compromise. The Moral Majority's Ron Godwin vowed renewed efforts for school prayer and against abortion. And Fund Raiser Richard Viguerie, searching for new motivating issues, called for an anti-elitist "new populist revolt." At a somber New Right election-night party, Viguerie declared, "If we win or lose, it's not our doing. God's will is going to be done. He's got His plan." Last week, at least, God's plan seemed to be a moderate one. -By Jane...
...year term as President of their fragmented country. Gemayel spoke while standing beneath a black-draped portrait of his brother Bashir Gemayel, 34, who was killed by a bomb blast on Sept. 14, nine days before he was to have assumed the presidency. In that somber setting the new President-elect said: "I pledge to shoulder the monumental responsibility of reuniting and reconstructing Lebanon in the fashion my martyred brother had hoped to accomplish...
...immediate prospect of hanging, a few must have wondered whether they were in for a bit of financial drawing and quartering. For, as unsubstantiated rumors of everything from a cash squeeze on a major West German bank to a possible pending loan default by Bolivia swirled about, the somber-spirited financiers found themselves wrestling with the difficult task of trying to shore up sagging confidence in the world banking system...
Monsignor Quixote, Greene's 22nd novel, is his most surprising, an intoxicating mix of all the previous themes, antic, religious and somber. His heroes have tumbled, almost unchanged, from Cervantes' 17th century classic. A Vatican prelate, whose Mercedes is miraculously "repaired" by Padre Quixote (who simply fills the empty gas tank) grants a boon: "There are more sinners among the bourgeois than among peasants ... go forth like your ancestor Don Quixote on the highroads of the world...