Word: grief-stricken
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Disregard of Privacy. Jones does not find much concern about the privacy of public figures. Readers do resent disregard for the "feelings of individuals like themselves who for no fault of their own are thrust into the news. They resent photos that show grief-stricken families or that hold someone up to ridicule...
That evening, grief-stricken relatives gathered at Janus' home. Someone offered to go out for aspirin. No need, said Stanley Janus, 25, Adam's younger brother, who had noticed a bottle of Tylenol in the kitchen. He and his wife Theresa, 19, each took at least one capsule. At 8:15 p.m., five hours after his brother died, Stanley was pronounced dead. Theresa died on Friday afternoon...
...funeral, Brezhnev appeared grief-stricken as he shuffled along, supported by aides, behind Suslov's coffin. Before the body was lowered into a grave next to Joseph Stalin's beside the Kremlin Wall, Brezhnev read a eulogy: "While saying goodbye to our comrade, I would like to tell him, 'Sleep peacefully, our dear friend; you have led a great and glorious life...
...buried in St. Paul's, and his monument bears a stone copy of one of his best-known paintings, an image recognizable to thousands of people who probably could not have identified a Turner, a Blake or even a Constable: The Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner, a grief-stricken collie resting its head on its master's coffin...
...mother Betty, now 39, was grief-stricken. "I asked, 'What happened?' The doctors said, 'We don't know. Things like this happen.' " The answer did not satisfy Vadala: "That child meant too much for me to just bury her and forget about...