Word: somberness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early days of Bolshevism, leading women Communists tended to be of two kinds: either freewheeling intellectuals like the handsome and dashing Aleksandra Kollantay, sometime U.S.S.R. ambassador, who advocated free speech and practiced free love, or professional revolutionaries like somber, spectacled Rozalia Zemliachka, the civil war liquidator of the Crimea, and the white-haired oldtime Chekist Elena Stasova. Although Stalin liquidated thousands of male members of the party apparatus in the great 1937 purges, he left these and other top women alone. But Stalin did not trust old revolutionaries, men or women...
...ceremony that so moved the world's figure-skating champion began with a fanfare of trumpets. Flags of 32 nations were raised above the rim of the Olympic stadium. Somber Swiss in grey lounge suits snapped to attention. Apple-cheeked Dutchmen bobbed orange tassels on their caps. Prim Japanese in blue blazers stood stiffly with blue-belted Russians and a U.S. contingent that sported red, Russian-style fur hats over their snappy white duffel coats. Uniformed Turks were a solid blob of black...
Either way, Mauriac's point is as somber, remorseless and debatable as his novel, i.e., that the saints have only one reward at the hands of the world, and even of its professing Christians: to be killed by the poor sinning things they love...
...Enemy Within. Since his return, the old man has aged fast. In conversation, he sometimes repeats himself. Last September he suffered a mysterious dislocation in the inner ear that some have reported as a slight stroke. Over him hangs a somber sense that time is short and that like Moses he can only point the way to the Promised Land. Delivering his first speech after his return, he seemed even more wrought up about the enemy within than the enemy without, as he denounced his people for putting Zion's cause second to their own comforts and bowing down...
Last week in Melbourne, a slim, strong-willed Australian showed that he had found a simple answer: beat the Reds at their own game, and train harder than they do. Amateur Dave Stephens, 25, a professional milkman, ran away from Hungary's somber Sandor Iharos in a 3-mile exhibition race. His 25-yd. victory in 13:37.6 was no fluke. Only four days before, the "Flying Milkman" beat the holder of five world records- by the same margin in a 5,000-meter...