Word: somberness
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...nola" to honor the head of the junta, General António de Spínola, 64, and 200,000 people jammed a soccer stadium to hear speeches by leftist leaders newly returned from exile. THANK YOU, ARMED FORCES, read one banner paraded in the stadium. The only somber note was the continued hunt for members of the old regime's secret police, whose sadistic efficiency has now made them outlaws throughout the country...
...scenery passes less quickly. A five-story apartment building looks somber with its dirtencrusted windows and greasy Venetian blinds. Opposite, a group of tenement houses stand in the glare of DuPont's smoke and flames. The passengers waiting on the platform of Philadelphia's Thirtieth Street Station look like molish members of a dust-filled underworld. The train pulls out into a complex of electric power lines, intricately crossing tracks, and still freight cars. It then runs parallel to a river, crosses over, and continues through a residential area. To the right, a small rowboat drifts lazily on a pond...
...Time Inc.'s Editor in Chief talked in her Jerusalem office. Mrs. Meir joked about the problems of forming a government. But when the conversation turned to the Cabinet's first priority-disengagement with Syria-Israel's 75-year-old leader became markedly more somber. Her views...
...Bates, head of the FBI'S task force in the Hearst case, got a "seat-of-the-pants feeling" that Patricia might be freed last Wednesday, on her 20th birthday. Mother Catherine Hearst, who had been gently criticized by Patricia in one message for appearing on TV in somber black clothes, promised that she would don "a pretty dress" for her daughter's return. "They've asked me to make a gesture of sincerity, and that's what we've done," said Randolph Hearst. "I expect them to make a gesture of sincerity themselves...
Corson's premise is that Viet Nam was a psychological disaster, and that Americans have not yet fully registered the trauma. When we do, will we recover -ever? Corson is not optimistic. In words that might have come from Tom Hayden in a somber moment, he writes: "Our final innocence was lost in Viet Nam, and from here on it is likely that those who stand in the way of action deemed necessary for our national security or 'advancement' will be ground up like leaves in a backyard shredder...