Word: somberness
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...Only Course. President Kennedy announced his decisions on television to a somber nation and found that nation overwhelmingly behind him. Perhaps David Heffernan, a Chicago school official who listened to the speech in a crowded hotel lobby, best expressed the American mood: "When it was over, you could feel the lifting of a great national frustration. Suddenly you could hold your head up." Political leaders of both parties swung swiftly behind Kennedy's Cuba policy. G.O.P. congressional leaders issued a joint statement saying: "Americans will support the President on the decision or decisions he makes for the security...
Holiday countered in December, painting a hysterical picture of a Radcliffe of lovesick exhaustion, fantasy, and wild experimentation. And in June the New York Times magazine ran some somber pictures of brunettes, outlined the social rules, and described the emancipated 'Cliffie as "Keenly enthusiastic," "down-right solemn," and "better-looking...
...Smile, Nigger!" Even if there had been no students jeering him and no U.S. marshals guarding him, Meredith would have been a strange figure on that campus. At 29. he was visibly older than his fellow students. His somber suit, neatly knotted tie and shined shoes contrasted with the campus' standard male garb of white shirt, khaki trousers and scuffed loafers. And above all other differences, he was a Negro, the only one in the entire state of Mississippi who had broken through the public education system's segregation barrier...
...somber. 4OO-word statement printed in his own London Times, Baron Astor of Hever, 76, who was born in New York City and is the great-great-grandson of fur-trading Millionaire John Jacob Astor, announced that though he loves England dearly and will remain a loyal citizen, he simply cannot afford to die there. Because a newly adopted finance act imposes an 80% death duty on real property held overseas by any British subject who dies at home. Lord Astor, who owns an estimated $40 million in U.S. real estate, has decided to spend his last years in Southern...
...sent to Berlin as President Kennedy's special representative. General Watson, in a complex chain of command from the Pentagon and the State Department, can hardly make a move without clearing it in advance with Washington. Like the men under him. he lives with the somber instructions that a single rash decision could trigger World...