Word: somberness
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...Good Friday, the Navy Department had a somber message to interpose: three more U.S. warships had been sunk in the month-old battle off Java (see p. 25). On Easter Sunday the Christian nation went heavily to its churches, celebrated the resurrection of Jesus, who had died to save the world. Death and the war, whatever its right name might be, hung heavy over the country...
...ruins of Toungoo. Another went forward along a rail spur and highway toward Prome (home of one of Kipling's famed Ladies), an unhealthy town of 30,000 in a bowl of pagoda-topped hills. Beyond Prome were the oil fields of Yenahgyaung. The British were tired. The somber phrase, "delaying actions," popped up in dispatches day after day. One day there was action near Nyaunglebin, south of Toungoo; next day the Japs had Nyaunglebin. One day there was action near Tharrawaddy, south of prome; next day the Japs had Tharrawaddy...
...curtailment without applying tests of waste, expense, and taste would be needlessly severe. Again I call attention to the continuation of sports and entertainment in this country and Britain at the request of government leaders who recognize the need of those elements of our existence which give relief from somber thoughts...
...Crime Would Be Mortal. In the darkest hour since Dunkirk, Churchill's voice reached untold millions of British subjects in a broadcast from 10 Downing Street. There was plenty of fight still left in his tough, pudgy frame, but he was more somber, less eloquent than he had ever been before. "All I have to offer," he said, "is hard adverse war for many months ahead. . . . Many misfortunes, severe, tortuous losses, remorseless and gnawing anxieties, lie before...
...somber mien was a mask that broke awrinkle in a quick smile. His facile, orderly discussion of military flying impressed them. Smooth and suave, he clinched their approval when they first heard his rather rare but richly accented and discriminating profanity illuminate a point...