Word: solemnizes
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...Kenya, while 3,000 coal-black tribesmen, huddled in a kraal, watched in awe, a goat was slowly beaten to death and buried alongside a virgin ewe. After that ancient rite, supposedly strong magic against evil, an official representative of the Great White Queen Across the Waters pronounced a solemn curse against the Mau-Mau. The Mau-Mau (rhymes with yoyo) is a native secret society which has lately been worrying the British. London is afraid that the Mau-Mau might plunge Britain's East African empire into guerrilla war, and turn Kenya into another Malaya...
Picasso. "An old, old man. Because he is so brilliant, he is sad. I shot him in his studio, with sweaters and coats on. He was very solemn...
Childhood & Education: A king at three, Feisal had a brief fling at toys and tanks, lollipops, Flash Gordon movie serials and Superman comics before growing into a solemn-faced, rather lonely youngster, stuffed full of English, Turkish, Arabic, Kurdish, French and dynastic history. At 14, donned his father's old school tie and went off to Harrow (Winston Churchill's school). Got along with teachers & classmates, showed no signs of the anti-British feelings his father developed there after three Harrowing years...
...West German hunter who sounded his fiep and got his buck last week began the typical solemn ritual. While the stag was breathing his last, the hunters stood by in respectful silence. When the stag died, the hunters bared their heads and bowed low toward the carcass. Then the hunt master cut an oak twig and passed it, balanced on his knife blade, to the man who had made the kill. The hunter lightly brushed the twig across the animal's wound. Finally, he got a leaf and placed it between the stag's lips to symbolize...
Agriculture-conscious Republicans like Kansas' Representative Clifford Hope well know that the Democrats will make the most of their influence over the farmers. The Republicans recall the campaign of 1948, when the Department of Agriculture issued solemn warnings about a shortage of storage space for corn and wheat. Harry Truman and the other Democratic orators took off from there, trumpeting that the Republicans had voted down a bill to provide Government warehouse space. "If the corn farmers had stopped to think, they'd have known that they never did put their corn in Government warehouses," said Hope. "They...