Word: solemnizes
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...demonstration reached a major climax as 50,000 loyal subjects massed before His Majesty who stood with one hand on a switch of gold. The switch would start motors to roll away a great royal curtain of green and gold from the mouth of the tunnel. In solemn, kingly words which thrilled every listening subject throughout the Empire His Majesty christened the Mersey tunnel Queensway after Her Majesty and declared...
Tense on the centre aisle of Manhattan's small Holy Cross Armenian Apostolic Church last Christmas Eve sat a little band of men who were not there to worship God and His Son to be born on the morrow. Brilliant in churchly regalia, a solemn procession moved up the aisle toward the candle-decked altar. When Archbishop Leon Tourian, tall, grey-bearded primate of his Church in America, drew abreast of them, the men did what they had come for. A double-edged butcher knife flashed once, vanished in the Archbishop's abdomen. (TIME...
...20th anniversary of the Sarajevo murders the World Press was full of solemn editorials but in Sarajevo survivors of the plot took their ease in the snug cafe of Papa Semiz on King Peter's Street...
...Sakonnet Point, where rocky capes bracket a two-mile beach, off Brenton's Reef Lightship and the Narragansett shore where curious eddies twist in the shallow surf, there began last week the solemn business of picking a yacht to defend the America's Cup next September. After a week of trials, to be followed by another series in July, a third in August, the New York Yacht Club's selection committee had seen this year's three contenders under sail six times...
...grassy, wooded Trophy Point high above the Hudson at West Point one afternoon last week, the U. S. Military Academy's graduating class of 250 sat tense in full-dress uniform, rank on solemn rank. Parents, friends, generals flanked them beneath the trees. Under a flag-draped marquee at the base of the Battle Monument,. Wartime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker rose to warn of the world's unrest. Then he stepped down to hand out the white, ribbon-tied diplomas...