Word: solemnizes
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...somewhere near the Sahara Desert, within easy camel lope of a Foreign Legion post. Atlantis turns out to be populated by a carefree tribe whose principal activities are beating the tom-tom, drinking large quantities of a potent juice called arrack, and ogling the dancing girls. In their more solemn moments, they sometimes pause to embalm unwelcome visitors in molten gold...
Jenny Kissed Me (by Jean Kerr; produced by James Russo, Michael Ellis and Alexander H. Cohen in association with Clarence M. Shapiro) is a cheery little bore that needs more art in its artlessness. It tells of a crotchety parish priest who, tired of having his housekeeper's solemn, scrubbed-looking niece around the rectory, sets about sprucing her up as a means to getting her spliced. In the end, he succeeds in transforming her into such a glamor girl that she gets the very man she wants...
...brisk business with Jewish troops in nylons and wrist watches smuggled from Beirut. Lebanese village muktars (village chiefs) were giving banquets for Israeli staff officers, who in turn supplied them with sugar and other foods scarce in Lebanon. At Beersheba in the Negeb desert, 19 sheiks, with a solemn signing with rings, had petitioned Israel for protection. An Arab leader in a Jaffa jail complained to his lawyer that he had been skipped in Israel's recent census...
...after his death, in the shed-1'ke white church at the end of a rutted whiteclay road, his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren gathered to funeralize Uncle Row. Outside, the men stood in farm clothes or funeral-black town clothes. Inside, the preacher's voice was solemn, thin and reedy. The congregation murmured, its responses gathering resonance and urgency. Intoned the preacher: "We got a race to run for God, running to beat the devil who is trying to defeat us. Have faith in God, run on." The congregation chanted: "Run on. That's right. Amen...
Sure enough, the heavens opened; the rain beat down upon Kern County. Dr. Fenenga then took his bag to Berkeley and found the great cyclotron buildings drenched with welcome rain. With a solemn face, he presented the rainmaking bag, beaver tail, eagle down & all, to the University of California...