Word: solemnizes
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...five years Peking has been staking its prestige on its solemn vow to "liberate Formosa." It is Peking's declared No. 1 foreign-policy objective. It serves the additional purposes of justifying its large armies, of keeping tensions stirred up, of taking its people's minds off crop failures and floods. Chiang Kai-shek serves the historical function of being tyranny's external enemy, who can be blamed for exertions demanded and identified as the sponsor of anyone who dares challenge the regime. To renounce all this, to concede the U.N.'s right to talk...
...Perhaps this is too solemn an analysis of Madison Avenue," concludes Father Davis. "After all, a fellow has to make a living. But as they say down there when a big problem comes up late Friday afternoon: 'Let's kick this around over the weekend, and Monday morning we'll get together and cross-pollinate...
...seventh group was a tall, solemn-faced freshman who bears a strong physical resemblance to James Roosevelt. He was chaperoned by the Senate's runner-up (after Joe McCarthy) for the title of most controversial member: Oregon's vociferously independent Wayne Morse. When Oregon's Richard Lewis Neuberger signed the roster, he was greeted with a friendly burst of applause. Then he formally took his seat in the rear row of the chamber. For the first time in 40 years (since Neuberger was two years old), the voters of Oregon had sent a Democrat to the Senate...
Even the servants disapproved of the lonely, awkward girl. Once when Edith was reading the Bible at family services, she happened to glance at the butler's solemn face and burst out giggling. "The butler rose and looked around at the maidservants, who all got to their feet and silently trooped...
...lynch mob and takes him on as a client, but only for the Commie purpose of using Angel's case as party-line propaganda. While he rakes in folding money at a "Free Angel Rally," Barney turns over the boy's actual defense to David Blake, a solemn young law pro fessor out for "practical experience," who is too trusting to know what Barney's left ist hand is doing. The courtroom play-by play takes up most of David's time, and far too much of the reader's. But after hours, David climbs...