Word: somberness
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...intent was apparently to project an air of innocence, as well as optimism about the eventual outcome. The effect, however, was odd, to say the least. As New Jersey's Democratic Senator Harrison Williams entered a Long Island, N.Y., federal courtroom for the somber business of being sentenced to prison, he was smiling. Through most of the nearly one-hour court session, he was smiling. He left the courtroom smiling. But when Judge George Pratt ordered him to spend three years behind bars (out of a maximum of 15) and pay a $50,000 fine, Williams showed a deeper...
...somber mood that at 7:15 p.m. I turned from the conversation with the President to resume talking to Dobrynin. I urged him not to push us to an extreme. We would not accept Soviet troops in any guise. Dobrynin replied that in Moscow "they have become so angry they want troops...
...strong recovery from the recession that now grips the U.S. economy will be virtually impossible unless quick action is taken to curb record federal deficits and thus bring down oppressive interest rates. That was the somber verdict of TIME's Board of Economists, which met in New York City last week to review President Reagan's 1983 budget and assess its impact on the economy. The board applauded the dramatic progress that Reagan has made in cooling inflation and restoring incentives for investment, but feared that these gains could be erased by the deficits...
...know," Trout said in the somber post-game lockerroom. "Someone got in there, and the other guy [Lucas] ended up with...
...batons dispersed crowds that gathered in Warsaw's Old Town and on the steps of the Church of the Holy Cross to talk and to sing the national anthem. By 7 p.m. the streets were empty. That night, in its first admission of casualties, Warsaw radio reported in somber tones that seven Poles had been killed and hundreds wounded in a clash between miners, fighting with picks and axes, and troops at a coal mine near Katowice, in southern Poland. In addition, it acknowledged, 160 militiamen and 164 civilians had been injured during continuing disturbances in Gdansk...