Word: somberness
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...start of the meeting never deters Dunlop from continuing his performance. While Bok plays the somber straight man, next to him Dunlop slouches in his chair, scowls disdainfully in the direction of his ever diminishing number of adversaries, only to jerk upright in paroxysms of laughter when his side scores a point. At a meeting last fall, he and Bok disagreed over a bit of financial minutia, and when evidence corroborating his position came forth from the audience, he lurched forward chuckling, his finger waggling at the somewhat taken aback Bok. Some observers swore they detected him stick...
...Budget. In a somber December message to employees-the second such Yuletide memo in two years-Sulzberger outlined the paper's major problems. The exodus of middle-class families to the suburbs continues to demand an expensive transition from newsstand to home-delivery service. In town, the number of newsstands has dropped, from 10,632 ten years ago to 8,052 today. If the Times is to reach an ever more widely scattered readership, satellite printing plants must eventually be established. Competition from expanding suburban papers has also hurt. Newsday on Long Island, for instance, recently entered the Sunday...
...somber noon at the great plaza of the Capitol-the sky heavy with dull gray clouds, the flags at half-mast in honor of the late President Truman-when Richard Nixon appeared in front of the building to repeat his oath, using the same two family Bibles as last time and in fact wearing the same clothes and the same expression. Then came the dull thud of cannon firing 21 salutes, the strains of the Marine Band playing Hail to the Chief and, far away and faintly, the sea sounds of chanted protest...
...sent a second message to Hanoi. It said that the Oct. 31 signing was not possible because of difficulties in Saigon and asked for a new round of talks. The Hanoi trip was off; Kissinger, startled by the depth of Saigon's apprehensions, left for Washington in a somber mood, conceding to Thieu: "We go along with...
...expected, the heavily black District of Columbia give McGovern one of his two electoral unit victories, but the low turnout was a somber premonition for the way other central cities would vote...