Word: somberness
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...attention, as those who could reach the remote outpost paid their last respects. Among them was the man Hammarskjold had flown to Ndola to see: Katanga's stubborn President Moise Tshombe, whose troops were battling U.N. forces less than 100 miles away. Dressed in a grey suit and somber tie, Tshombe walked in briskly, placed a wreath of white lilies on the coffin, stood motionless for a full minute, bowed and walked out. "I knew him as a man with whom I could talk freely," he said earlier. "C'est triste pour...
...Accra last week, the 50 young teachers found the city in deep mourning over the death of Nana Kwabena Kena II, Ghana's high commissioner to India. Kena's body had arrived just before the Peace Corpsmen landed. The officials who welcomed them were in a somber mood, but the young teachers moved them deeply by singing, in Twi, the anthem Yen Ara Asase Ni (Land of Our Birth). Said U.S. Ambassador Francis Russell: "I know that they will establish deep and lasting friendship while they are here, and that they are establishing a pattern that will...
...wryly), the President gave them an autographed photo of himself, observed that the White House is "virtually the only home of a head of state in the world where the people of the country are welcome as visitors." Then the President of the U.S. went back to the more somber work that his office demands...
...cinq Août, 1944." President Truman sent a message for its dedication; General Charles de Gaulle knelt to place a floral Cross of Lorraine. Through the years, schoolchildren replaced the flowers as they withered. Each Aug. 5, the residents followed their mayor to the bridge to pay their somber respects to Jim McRacken. Each Christmas, they sent a gift to McRacken's daughter. And, regularly, they invited Maggie McRacken to visit Mayenne. Wrote former Mayor Charles Drou: "Our home is yours, for except for your husband, we would have no home...
...Wodehouse, choleric William Connor-author of the Daily Mirror's Cassandra column-was drafted by the Minister of Information. In a virulent attack broadcast by the BBC, Connor castigated Wodehouse as "an old playboy" who had "fallen on his knees and worshipped Hitler." Roared Connor: "It is a somber story of self-respect, honor and decency being pawned to the Nazis for the price of a soft bed in a luxury hotel...