Word: grief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this is easy to see in Cambridge, far from the anger of a young Palestinian consigned to the misery of a refugee camp or the grief of a bereaved Israeli mother. It may even seem wrong to meet such suffering with platitudes, however well-intended, but perhaps these are events to which only platitudinous responses make sense. Terrorism, terror-bombing and misery in the Middle East will not end as a result of other terrorism. They will only end with a real peace settlement. Such a settlement would probably involve territorial concessions by both Israel and the Arab states; more...
...international public opinion, deceived by the Nixon administration's propaganda, began by reacting moderately to the criminal coup d'etat of March 18 which the CIA had fomented to destroy an independent, peaceful and neutral Cambodia, the armed invasion with its attendant grief and destruction gave the world the most flagrant proof of the true nature of American imperialism and its participation in the coup...
...dismissed as a bagatelle by most biographers, the release by Jefferson's descendants in 1944 of 25 letters from Mrs. Cosway established beyond doubt that Tom and Maria had been deeply in love. At their parting, wrote Jefferson, he was "rent into fragments by the force of my grief." The letters were, in Brodie's words, "missives of such ineffable tenderness that they constitute the most remarkable collection of love letters in the history of the American presidency...
...resolve "the problem of the length of time necessary to disseminate, in a useful form, new information not only to the public, but to scientists." In Death As A Fact of Life he re-examines in the light of recent discoveries such subjects as treatment of the dying, fear, grief, transplants and the changing criteria of death. By bringing new information within reach of the public, he hopes to bring his readers to a clearer understanding of this one universal human experience, apart from birth...
...sounds familiar enough-like the plot of an old Bette Davis movie cap-sulized in a late-show listing. But Mom in this case is played by gum-snapping Goldie Hawn, and there is nothing classy about the way she expresses her grief or the methods she is willing to employ to pry Baby Langston out of the foster home in which he has been placed...