Word: somberness
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Minowitz stressed that "summer school is not all somber study." He recalled the time a hopital operating table was found in the Dunster House courtyard. "After looking around for a body, we decided it was a practical joke," he said...
Mondale, who found out that be had lost while attending a fundraiser dinner in Boston flew to Manchester early yesterday evening. At a pre flight news conference at Logan Airport a somber Mondale vowed, "I'm going to be campaigning all out because I believe I will be nominated...
...concentrated on two successive losses by the U.S. hockey team, and the second game was temporarily and perhaps mercifully blacked out by a power shortage. The six-hour time difference meant that the American setbacks were reported on newscasts well in advance of ABC's programs. And somber news from Moscow and Beirut overshadowed the celebratory glow in Sarajevo...
...elevated Goodman's release to a religious experience. When he encountered an aide in the Oval Office, Reagan blurted, "Our prayers have been answered. We've got him home." Two hours later, the President was surrounded by somber staff members who were grappling with the larger problem of peace in Lebanon. Special Envoy Donald Rumsfeld poured out his frustration. Other aides piled high their grim tidings of confusion and doubt. Yet Reagan rummaged through the debris for new ideas and different combinations, glints of hope no matter how faint. Finally Mike Deaver, who knows the inner Reagan better...
...Somber in tone and menacing in content, that announcement by Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov last week was far from unexpected...