Word: grief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bully-ness". A frail, asthmatic child painfully builds his body into the epitome of physical fitness and manages to excel athletically at, of all places, Harvard College (from which Roosevelt graduated in 1880, and which he describes in the play as teeming with "intensely languid" people). Stricken with grief at the age of 26 when both his mother and his first wife die on the same day, Roosevelt abandons a budding career in New York politics and heads to the Dakotas, but he finally grapples with his sorrow and returns to the East the following year. These two triumphs constitute...
With his typical Ralph Cramden deadpan, Gleason has been known to compare golf to a chary woman, saying "you know you're not going to wind up with anything but grief, pal, but you can't resist the impulse...
...Jack Nicklaus's peers on the pro circuit the analogy might seem an appropriate one but the Bear's game has brought him very little grief over the years. Bobby Jones supplied the definitive and oft-quoted summary of Nicklaus's game when the one golf immortal speaking of the other said: "He plays a kind of golf of which I am not familiar...
...them on the reader as if the novel itself were a correctional institution. "We prisoners," says Farragut, "more than any men, have suffered for our sins, we have suffered for the sins of society, and our example should cleanse the thoughts of men's hearts because of the grief with which we are acquainted." Another sententious observation would be equally true: crime's victims are no strangers to grief...
...script for Amman, Riyadh and Damascus is a replay of Cairo. Jordan's King Hussein, however, is distracted by grief over the death of his 28-year-old wife Alia, who was killed last week in a helicopter crash. The quick Lebanon stopover-a brief four hours-is purely symbolic: a demonstration of Washington's sympathy for the enormous reconstruction problems facing that war-ravaged country...