Word: deepest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when Wiesel appealed to him publicly to alter his plans, and on humanitarian grounds avoid Bitburg. Rather than seeming weak, he would in fact have hammered home one of his most cherished points: that he is a President with compassion, a human being with a real respect for the deepest human concerns--dignity and life itself. But unfortunately the lesson he has taught us has been lost only on the Great Communicator himself...
...Thailand's last absolute ruler, before a coup installed a constitutional monarchy in 1932. The Queen's remains were borne on the traditional 40-ton, gilded teakwood chariot to an ornate cremation pavilion. Though some were critical of the estimated $1.2 million expense, funerals are occasions of the deepest importance to Thais. Explained Thaveesak Senanarong, who organized the spectacle: "Even one's enemies come. It is their last chance to apologize...
...Crimson has the league's deepest pitching staff. Even with Mike Presz inactive since March with a shoulder injury, the team still has five, maybe six, solid starters and two, maybe three relievers...
...Goetz experienced what may have been the watershed event in his life. While traveling home with some electrical equipment, he was jumped by three black youths at the Canal Street subway station. He was smashed into a plate-glass window, and suffered torn cartilage in his knee. His deepest bruises, however, were psychic. Two of the muggers escaped; one was nabbed by an alert policeman. Goetz was outraged that the suspect spent less than three hours at police headquarters while Goetz was there for more than six. Being the victim of such an act, says Atlanta Psychiatrist Alfred Messer, "creates...
These are incantations, summoning up a joyous past from deepest grief for a vanished world. Alexander's celebrations recall a poem by his brother that begins, "Violently the spring bursts into Moscow houses." In the poem, the poet and his friends meet to hail the season. Yet Boris adds: "Our evenings are farewells/ Our parties are testaments/ So that the secret stream of suffering/ May warm the cold of life." The party is long over, but Alexander's book still serves the same high purpose...