Word: somberness
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...hours later the President went on TV to deliver a speech that had been in preparation for weeks. His manner was somber and determined. The U.S. goal, he said, "is not the conquest of Iraq; it is the liberation of Kuwait." But in the process, he indicated, the anti-Iraq coalition would destroy the offensive military machine that made Iraq a menace to its neighbors. Said Bush: "We are determined to knock out Saddam Hussein's nuclear-bomb potential. We will also destroy his chemical-weapons facilities...
Haroun is the charming story of a young boy who lives in a land devoid of happiness, overrun by corrupt politicians and dirtied by smog. All the adults are serious and somber, and no one has enough "gift of gab" to tell stories except for Haroun's father. When the father loses this ability Haroun must help his father and several other adults regain their happiness. Among the various morals presented here: dishonest, power-hungry sad people are bad; national animosities are misfounded; and children should respect their elders...
...three decades, the somber-hued oil painting of flowers in a vase hung uncelebrated in the living room of a suburban Milwaukee couple. But last summer, as husband and wife cleared away a lifetime of domestic clutter, they called in an auctioneer's agent. His discovery, disclosed last week: the seemingly undistinguished still life was something any avid art collector would give his left ear to own -- a genuine Vincent van Gogh...
...long ago a wild political youngster, rose as a silver-haired patriarch. Near him, Iowa's Tom Harkin, popping pills to settle an unruly stomach, his hair a little too long for a true corn-belt troubadour, watched and waited to gather up some of the moment's somber glory. History is made of such things in such times...
...American bombers continued their missions over Iraq, the Harvard campus remained quiet and somber yesterday afternoon...