Word: solemnizes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...neat little rose garden outside the White House stood four infantry soldiers, rigidly at attention. Around them were ranged their solemn families, dignified generals, President Truman. In a hoarse voice, a major general read: "In the fierce charge . . . [he] bayoneted two enemy soldiers . . . despite vicious opposing fire . . . boldly continued on, throwing grenades, clubbing and bayoneting...
...oldsters streamed through the lobbies of Detroit's hotels, singing hymns and loyally downing vitamin pills. But despite the undaunted doctor, the delegates could not help feeling a little querulous. Detroit's Mayor Albert E. Cobo had pleaded that he was too busy to welcome them. By solemn resolution, the delegates found the excuse flimsy and the mayor's conduct "an outrageous insult." Politicians didn't do that sort of thing in the old days...
...professional boxer, fight day is a solemn day, and World Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson takes it as solemnly as lesser men. There are no high jinks, none of the footloose fun of other days. It is a time for early morning prayer, which Sugar Ray makes in any handy church, denomination immaterial. It is a day for not shaving (to keep the skin tough), a day for a tea & toast breakfast-nothing more. It is a day of long minutes in a narrow, chilly dressing room, while a manager and trainer swap yarns to break the tension...
...happens every June, said Amherst's Cole, the graduates were facing a "crisis as usual." Indefatigable Defense Secretary George C. Marshall, with two more commencement addresses on his calendar before he hopped off to Korea (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), had solemn words for the new crop of ensigns at the U.S. Naval Academy: "You have all read that these are critical times, but I am not certain you realize how critical." At Georgia's Emory University, Civil Defense Administrator Millard F. Caldwell agreed: "It is not an unalloyed pleasure to be young in the spring...
Once again the time had come for U.S. colleges and universities to honor the nation's notables. In solemn ceremonies on scores of U.S. campuses last week, statesmen, artists, writers, scholars and soldiers were one by one receiving the scrolls and hoods of brand-new honorary degrees...