Word: somberness
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...season, when his uniform is locked up somewhere in Schaeffer Stadium, he'll be taking it easy in San Jose with his mother. and maybe it is only then that the quiet and somber Jim Plunkett can best be understood as a complete...
...grinned as he heard his own high-pitched laughter played back in a rare moment of taped levity. John Mitchell, the former Attorney General, listened casually through one earphone, as if he wanted to hear as little as possible. The others, John Ehrlichman, Robert Mardian and Kenneth Parkinson, were somber...
Choking the System. The ambience of that ambassadorial dinner contrasted severely with the somber mood that pervades Washington and much of the non-Communist world. The root problem is the enormous cost of imported oil, now more than $11 per bbl.,* a fourfold inflation in only one year. The increase has enabled the oil exporting countries to earn an almost inconceivable amount of foreign currency: about $100 billion this year. Unless prices weaken, next year's total will swell to $108 billion. By the end of this decade, the 13 nations of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) could...
...prose is a lot like Kurt Vonnegut's, but it lacks the naivete that allows Vonnegut to laugh. Heller's somber style reflects the cautious narrator's inhibitions. Their eventual breakdown only after it has become too late remains in Slocum's eyes a sign of weakness. In the same way, the novel's structure evolves into a complex web out of an increasing sense of urgency. Slocum's failure to reach his children comes, he feels, not from his own virtual breakdown but from the breakdown in American values. Children, he feels, have a right to be pessimistic...
Theories as to how reserpine-type alkaloids might influence breast cancer are inconclusive. A leading U.S. cancer epidemiologist, Manhattan's Dr. Ernest L. Wynder, believes that the action is not to cause the cancer-that usually takes many years-but to stimulate or accelerate its development. A somber Lancet editorial suggests that doctors will now have to weigh the apparently greater risk of breast cancer against the advantages of lowering blood pressure for mature women...