Word: somberness
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...first Cabinet-level talks between Washington and Moscow since the Afghanistan invasion last December. Accompanied only by their interpreters, the two ministers talked for three hours-an hour longer than planned-in an elegant marble room inside the former Habsburg imperial palace. After the session Muskie looked distinctly somber as he re-emerged into the klieg lights and said only that "the discussion fully justified my belief that it was necessary." As for the prospects of future talks, Muskie observed that "the meeting might lead to further discussions," but such details could not be revealed until he reports to Jimmy...
...Islanders tried something new. For much of the season, they played terribly; the Islanders could not manage to climb to the .500 mark to stay until Jan. 15, three months after opening day. Their locker room, once the home of new-boys-on-the-block camaraderie, became a somber scene as players anxiously fretted over last night's mistakes. Injuries decimated the roster, most notably the loss of Potvin for 49 games. As many as 31 players shuttled through the lineup, the largest turnover since the Islanders' maiden season. For the first time in its history, the club...
...spurned a specific French request to spell out a timetable for Soviet withdrawal. Overall, he made it bluntly clear that Moscow does not consider its continued occupation to be any of Western Europe's business. Posing with the Soviet diplomat for French television cameras, Giscard appeared stern and somber...
...Chicago's Association for the Children of Holocaust Survivors: "There is nothing serious enough to land us on a psychiatrist's couch, but we do walk around with part of us missing." In many survivors' homes, ominous silences and gaps in the family history created a somber approach to childhood and an aura of tragedy about adult lives. Says one survivor's daughter, who is now raising her own family in Naperville, Ill.: "My parents and other adults were always talking in hushed tones. They had a serious and fearful approach to life that was bound...
...churches across the country, millions of Americans joined in this traditional hymn and others like it on Easter Sunday. They sang of spiritual rebirth, of renewed hope, of joy in the season. But this was an unusually somber Easter, and many a churchgoer could not forget that half a world away, in the U.S. embassy in Tehran, 50 Americans had begun their sixth month of cruel captivity. They, too, had been promised permission to attend Easter services, to be conducted by three Christian clergymen from the U.S. The clergymen flew from New York City's Kennedy Airport, bearing what...