Word: solemnizes
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...Solemn Record. Behind the Unknown Soldier and his solitary guard lay the gently rolling countryside of northern Virginia and the 408 carefully tended acres of Arlington National Cemetery. In the cemetery lie the remains of 87,000, most of them military men and women, and on the headstones of their graves is carved a solemn record of history. The names themselves ring with historic significance : William Howard Taft, the only President to exercise his prerogative as Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces and select Arlington as his burial site; Admiral Robert (North Pole) Peary; Robert Todd Lincoln, James Garfield...
...over Britain were heard voices raised in admiration for 25-year-old Princess Margaret's decision to choose duty over love;* others felt only immense sympathy for her. But mixed with these solemn sounds, in many a pub in gambling-minded Britain, was the noise of bets being paid off. The London Times, which managed to editorialize on the news without mentioning Townsend by name, commended Margaret for doing what was "expected of her." The self-appointed leader of the opposite side, the brash tabloid Daily Mirror, proclaimed: "A crisis has come to the serene cloisters of the Church...
...that the myth is the only reality worth bothering about. A thousand cap pistols will leap from their holsters to protest this attempt to debunkhouse the cowboy. By the time the reader is led by the book's two vicarious vaqueros to their massive cowboy bibliography (306 solemn references), his alkali-parched lips may well be forming a song...
...Force statisticians went solemn ly to work gathering every detail about all "sightings," including those that were reported from mental institutions. They recorded the date and hour at which the spaceship was allegedly seen, and figured the position of the sun. They noted meteorological conditions, the reliability of the informant and his training. They recorded the color, brightness, speed, elevation, etc. of each "aerial object." They took account of related events, such as balloon-launchings. They noted whether the object had been seen by eye or radar. They put these details on punch cards and ran them through sorting machines...
There were skeptics. One stunt of the road-show phrenologists was to "excite" veneration by massage of the relevant bump, whereupon the subject's face "instantly assumed a solemn and beautiful expression." Sober clergymen railed against this sort of thing, but the phrenologues answered by incorporating in their lectures a proof of God's existence, to wit: the Bump of Veneration proved there should be Someone to venerate; God, in His turn, proved the existence of the Bump of Veneration. Just as a psychoanalyst may reason that a patient who dislikes analysis ("exhibits aggression") is therefore...