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...unlimited patience as well as a fine mind and tremendous energy. Any exhibition of impatience or bad temper by others gives him amusement. At such times it is interesting to watch his serious, solemn expression as he protests his innocence of any provocation." Molotov was a stickler for procedure. His favorite word was: "Nyet" ("No"), which Byrnes heard so often "I almost accept it as part of my own language. He can say in English, 'I agree,' but so seldom does he agree that his pronunciation isn't very good...
...Indonesians did their best to make the wells productive. Fortnight ago, in accordance with a traditional dedication, the workers buried the heads of eight carabaos and eight goats among the wells, lifted their cupped hands toward heaven and intoned the solemn Alam Kabeh-"Greeting to Allah from all the world." The echo will soon be heard on the mainland when Palembang's oil begins to flow through the petroleum-starved East...
...after the fall of Khartoum. In England there was immense popular sympathy with his plight, and money was collected to rescue him. Stanley cut short his lecture tour to lead the expedition. His two-volume description of the epic journey was In Darkest Africa. Author Manning's less solemn account of it, based on other documents as well as Stanley's, trims its hero to life size...
Already the books are rolling from the printing presses and scholars are gathering in solemn conclaves throughout the world to commemorate the four hundredth anniversary of the birth of Miguel do Cervantes Saavedra...
...Antwerp's old Grand' Place one day last week, the U.S. Army held a solemn ceremony. It was to have been almost wholly American, but the people of Antwerp would not have it that way. Throughout the city, they draped their windows with U.S. flags. To the Grand' Place came more than 5,000 Belgians, many of them bearing chrysanthemums and laurel. For Antwerp, whose citizens had called it "the city of sudden death" during the long rain of German V-bombs, this was a day to say thanks and farewell...