Word: grief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Uncle Adrian? The Young May Moon is the story of a 15-year-old boy's unhappiness when his mother dies and his father temporarily deserts him. For young Philip Rice, the death of his mother is a matter of simple grief. For his father, Alec Rice, the death has another aspect: he feels inner relief at being free of a "dictator who rarely raised her voice and never threw a saucepan." Alec chucks his truck driving, drifts off on a holiday after shipping Philip to his Uncle Adrian, a baker in Wales...
...finally learned some of the cost of its retreat in Korea. It was high, and in each individual case a matter of immense grief to those near & dear, but in cold military statistics, it was not nearly so high as the nation had feared after the first reports...
Stalin . . . He has achieved his goal in bringing grief to the world...
Gaughan stressed that the disease is not the exclusive scourge of Skid Row, "but brings grief and misery to all social strain," He explained that the course was intended for adults, and cannot be taken for credit by student...
When Elizabeth died of cancer, all the people she loved rushed at her as much for vengeance as for grief, almost like wolves into the circle of a dying fire that had drawn them yet filled them with fear. In a fitful half-light of awareness, the characters of Brendan Gill's soft-moving, almost plotless novel rip tooth & nail at the memory of Elizabeth-at each other for possession of it, and finally each at himself in remorse for the dried smallness of his own loveless heart...