Word: somberness
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...mild morning last April, a band of dignitaries gathered before the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. In the place of honor stood a tall old man whose somber mask of a face looked stiffly ahead. Before him, stretching to the hilltop, was an array of granite pillars, blocks and crosses - the graves of Americans who had died in two wars with Germany. Behind him fluttered the black, red and gold flag of the Federal Republic of Germany...
...Equal Partnership." Next morning, in somber mood, Queen Elizabeth II made her own traditional Christmas broadcast to the people of her Commonwealth. In the speech, which this year originated for the first time outside of Britain, she deplored the tendency to compare her reign with that of Elizabeth I. "Frankly, I do not myself feel at all like my great Tudor forebear, who was blessed with neither husband nor children, who ruled as a despot," she said, "but there is at least one significant resemblance between her age and mine. For her kingdom, small though it may have been...
...million more will be spent on new plants there in the next two years. Sprouting skyscrapers attested to Denver's new role as an oil capital, as new fields opened up in the area; 250 miles away, on the Colorado Plateau, an entirely new industry-at once somber and all-promising-was thriving. Uranium mining and processing, which employed fewer than five dozen men on the plateau in 1948, last year had a payroll of 8,000 and was a $100 million-a-year business...
...This somber announcement was greeted with what Pravda called "spontaneous demonstrations of the Russian workers and peasants." In Tiflis, capital of Beria's home state, "the entire Georgian people" was said to be condemning the traitor for "sowing poisonous seeds of distrust of our great brother Russian people...
Three Weeks to Go. Ike's speech gained for him-and the U.S.-new influence on the world's somber thoughts of war and peace (see INTERNATIONAL). That evening, Ike went aboard the Columbine again and headed for Washington and one of the biggest jobs his Administration has faced: final preparation of the program which he will present to Congress in just three weeks. His Administration and the Republican Party, the President has solemnly stated, will stand or fall on that program...