Word: somberness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With his motherly auburn-haired wife, three daughters and son, the new President lives in a somber grey apartment house, entertains freely, jokes continually, sneaks candy whenever he can get it, wishes there were more time to tinker with mechanical gadgets...
This calculation rests on the somber fact that the need to rehabilitate is in itself no guarantee that rehabilitation will take place. A row of shattered houses does not get itself spontaneously rebuilt any more than a valuable but unexploited mine spontaneously opens itself or milk spontaneously provides itself to school children or to Hottentots. In a world organized to enjoy the economies of a division of labor, work gets done only as the result of a command or an inducement...
...midst of Wagnerian gloom, Hitler spoke his piece, and it was somber. Appealing for German Red Cross funds, the Führer said that the German Eastern Front armies had overcome a winter crisis "that would have broken every other armed force in the world." He spoke of "superhuman hardships'' and the need for sacrifices so that Germany might be "spared the horror...
Last week Hispanidad scored a significant advance in Argentina. In the somber, greystone Palacio San Martin, the first of five pending cultural agreements between Spain and Argentina was ratified. The agreement provides for a free exchange of Spanish and Argentine publications, thus facilitates Fascist propaganda in the Americas...
Watching the Thala battle, Drew Middleton of the New York Times wrote: "British [tank] units sustained the first shock, then counterattacked heavily. All this time the American guns in the hills were sounding a somber song of frustration for the enemy. Supported by infantry that had been heavily bombed on its way to the front, the Germans continued their efforts to break through until night fell. . . . "Broken guns and burned-out tanks were strewn across the sandy plain and the knobby hills. The ground was dotted with the bodies of men. . . . By this morning the fighting had died down...