Word: somberness
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...campus and the great mass of uniformly gray buildings that are West Point has become indistinguishable from the atmosphere. In the courtyard, a brigade of cadets--dressed in gray rain slickers, gray caps with gray rain hoods, and gray trousers--lines up for formation and review. It looks somber and depressing, one first class cadet (senior) says, but look on the bright side. Things get even worse during January and February (they call it the "period of gloom" at the Point) and everything--the grass, the water, the faces of 4000-plus cadets--turns gray...
...door of the house he grew up in, the inscription of the family name is gradually fading away. The 106-year-old house is being repainted now, but not even the smell of lacquer could hide the mustiness of the library where Eliot sits, clad in a kind of somber pinstripe suit he wore when he taught at Harvard...
That may seem a novel thought to pop up this campaign season in the midst of so much hand wringing over domestic economics and somber warnings about nuclear war. Yet there is a truth there...
...Giant Food chain in the Washington area last week opened its first warehouse store in Clinton, Md. The prices are low, but the atmosphere is somber. The new warehouse carries less than half as many items as the chain's regular stores, and goods are put out on shelves while still in their shipping cartons. Individual items no longer carry the cost stamped on the top; prices are carried in the striped code that is read at the computerized checkouts. As a result, operating expenses are low, permitting the store to keep down its prices...
...pose of accustomed authority. With outstretched arms, he waved down the combined cheers of the striking workers behind him and the massed crowd of sympathizers outside the gate, and lifted a microphone to his mouth. This time, however, instead of a rousing exhortation to militancy, his message was a somber admonition: to curtail the spread of further strikes across his nation and give the government the necessary breath a while. "It is not good to have Poland terrorized," the strike leader, Lech Walesa, told the crowd. "The people must have food. Poland can only last for a few more days...