Word: somberness
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Other Ivy League stadiums were not as somber as Soldiers Field Saturday. Powerhouse offenses carried Yale and Cornell to easy victories over non-league opponents. Penn squeezed by Brown, 14-9; Dartmouth fell to Holy Cross, 14-3; and Princeton squashed hapless Columbia...
...going gets tough long about December. Both Quad and Yard residents will be dulled observing the transformation from luscious green to somber gray. It's about this time when many of you will start wondering, "Why didn't I go to Stanford?" But the joys of your first reading period alleviate any doubts in your mind: you should have gone to Stanford...
...wife and daughters were united against his quitting. Nixon had always said that he would "go down to the wire constitutionally." Julie and Tricia continued to argue that he should. Usually, after such a family dinner, the Nixons would watch a movie together. Last week there was only somber discussion, then tears and embraces...
...Somber Mood. Indeed, the solemnity of a presidential abdication masked the hostility that many felt on both sides. Newsmen studiously avoided gloating, and neither Nixon nor his aides renewed their old attacks on the press. Within two hours of the resignation speech, Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler went to the podium of the White House briefing room for the last time to praise the "energy" and "intelligence" of the startled reporters before him. Ziegler had become the unhappy symbol of White House deception, and his paean to the press drew a few titters. But there was none of the rancorous repartee...
Some of the reporters could not quite understand their own somber mood. Chicago Tribune Correspondent Jim Squires phoned an editor at his home office and said, "I've been fighting the guy for 18 months, but suddenly I can't get excited about his quitting." At the Washington Post, Executive Editor Ben Bradlee ordered his staff not to talk to outside journalists. The Post, pre-eminent leader in Watergate coverage, had made enough news. The conflict was over and now Bradlee wanted simply to report events. When a Women's Wear Daily reporter penetrated Bradlee...