Word: somberness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...done as much as any stained-glass designer to set the new direction for his German colleagues. He was represented in the show by two brilliant, semi-abstract windows: one with a dove to symbolize the Holy Spirit and the other with a fish to symbolize the Christ. More somber were Ignatius Geitel's windows illustrating the Apocalypse, one of which showed an apocalyptic horseman with a greenish face, red hair and yellow halo...
...very few have heard it as it comes in English direct from Moscow." Whenever he can, Turner juxtaposes the facts of a situation as he knows it with the Soviet version. Although his first show used liberal excerpts from Russian broadcasts on the Soviet superbomb, it is not all somber stuff. He points out that Radio Moscow, for reasons of its own, goes in for such novelties as the American folk song All God's Chillun Got Wings, sung in phonetic English by Russian schoolchildren ("They are just trying to be folksy," he believes...
What Next? At dawn on the third day, G.I.s donned their "flak jackets" and helmets again, moved down the scarred slopes from dozens of famous hills where U.N. soldiers had died: Heartbreak Ridge, Whitehorse Mountain, Christmas Hill, The Hook, Little Gibraltar. Somber and unsmiling, the men wondered what would happen to them next...
...first Secretary of the Air Force, Missouri's Stuart Symington, now a U.S. Senator, has been calling for greater U.S. air power, and warning against cuts and cutbacks in Air Force appropriations. Last week, on NBC's Meet the Press, Symington gave the U.S. people his most somber warning...
...less somber news of another Meet the Press M.C., see below...