11.   It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity.

12.   The most solemn moment of the Games came when the cauldron was extinguished and the flame symbolically passed to Santo Domingo.

13.   The tractor buries two men in a dirt lot at the edge of the Southern California desert, its engine rumbling during what might otherwise be a solemn moment.