Word: somberness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...somber task of choosing Litton's successor as nominee falls to Missouri's Democratic state committee, which could act as early as this week. Because of his third place finish, Symington withdrew his name from consideration. That left Hearnes with the inside track-and the G.O.P. with an even stronger chance of picking up a Senate seat in November. The Republican nominee is State Attorney General John C. Danforth, 39, heir to the Ralston-Purina fortune and a skillful vote getter...
...part of Jerusalem and Washington. Certainly much could happen that would suddenly bring greater dangers to the region. Assad could be deposed, and the Palestinians could begin winning, though both events seem unlikely now. In the Middle East, the unexpected-like Syrians fighting Palestinians-is routine. By that somber measure, the region has never been more normal...
...French Theater Director Patrice Chéreau, 31, as he contemplated the prospect of staging the centennial celebration of the Bayreuth Festival with a new production of Der Ring des Nibelungen, Wagner's longest, densest and most puzzling creation. The results were on display last week at the somber brick Festspielhaus, which Wagner himself designed, and they brought on a storm of booing deep and raw. A few people both booed and clapped at once. Shouting matches broke out between husbands and wives in splendid evening clothes. Some of the crowd had brought old-fashioned trainmen's whistles...
Whether or not it is the daily regimen of five hours' classroom study and three to four hours' gymnastics training that has made her so, Comaneci is an extraordinarily somber child. Although she struts about and fidgets on the sidelines during competitions as if she were trying to release an inexhaustible flow of energy, she is almost eerily still outside the arena. While waiting to take her daily medical checkup one morning, she watched Olympic swimming heats on TV, her dark, unblinking eyes fixed on the action, her pale face expressionless, her hands folded decorously...
...standing in front of a television camera at the 1972 National Democratic Convention. McGovern had locked up the nomination, and Humphrey had his arm around "Fritz" recommending him as a future leader of national stature to Walter Cronkite and the nation. As Humphrey spoke, Mondale stood there quietly, somber and earnest...