Word: solemnizes
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...reference to U.S. plans for another test shot in late April: "Is it really wise to proceed with these explosions?" In the House of Commons, the Laborites used the bomb as a new political weapon on their old target, the U.S. And Prime Minister Churchill, in the most solemn tone, assured a hushed House of Commons that the "overwhelming consequences of development ... fill my mind out of all comparison with anything else...
...Britain should give Moscow a solemn warning: "That in the event of aggression [against any of the NATO powers, including Germany], the aggressor will be subjected to the full weight of Anglo-American air power, using the atom, and in due course, the hydrogen bomb." The West should also inform Rus sia that West German forces are ready in two or three years . . . British and U.S. troop will be withdrawn "from the Continent, and the French forces back into France." Western troops would remain in Berlin "as a token force," but the protection of West Germany would be left...
...gravel and concrete men listened with solemn attention, looking at one another and shaking their heads in silent awe. They gave Cole a standing ovation for about one minute; then they filed out slowly and thoughtfully...
...Fern, one of the few Trial principals who does not also sing in Pinafore, makes up for an infinitesimal voice by rascally and slick acting as the defendant, Edwin. William Cowperthwaite as the Usher is the only other outstanding actor in the curtain raiser. His strong, clear voice and solemn scowl are quite suited to the part. Unfortunately he becomes too enamored of that particular characterization, and later in the evening, as the hideous Dick Deadeye, his performance is too stiff, his accent too clear and his manner (if not his body) too unbending...
...strike laymen as just terrible, and young U.S. painters as just wonderful. His "abstract expressionism" might be defined as picturing nothing at all with a minimum of conscious effort-it makes art a game. Yet the thousands of contemporary artists who paint like Motherwell are a solemn lot on the whole, and as dedicated to their lonely games of self-expression as any academic realist is to copying things...