Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...qualities that makes me different, sometimes for good, sometimes, I dare say, for evil, from other men." But Mrs. Dickens was bewildered by her passionate husband's avid pursuit of the moment. She found it hard to understand how he could give away to uncontrollable grief on hearing that a friend had died, and a few hours later enter into amateur theatricals with uncontrollable guffaws...
...mountains near Nanking, amid the wreckage of a transport plane, a charred body lay. A scrap from a woolen sweater, a bodyguard's pistols, the testimony of a grief-stricken aide identified the fire-eaten remains as those of General Tai Li, one of China's most mysterious, most respected and most dreaded men. There was no official announcement of his death. But Lieut. General Cheng Chieh-min, 47, the Government's Moscow-educated G-2 chief, was named to succeed Tai Li as head of China's secret police...
...remotest lakes of upper Canada." Now France's imperial glory was gone, and her aging but active special emissary, only ten months out of a Nazi prison, had come to the shores of the former colony to plead for aid. "Man," Blum read, "always goes from grief to grief...
...with a razor. Her grandfather was popped into a sanatorium for alcoholics; her uncle still languished in the state penitentiary. The relatives who raised Susan were "a whole gibbering pack of unknowns, all drunken, all semi-criminal, all diseased." Prudish Susan was so overcome by the "beautiful luxury of grief" in telling this hideous tale that she burst into tears. Slick only poured more molasses on his flapjacks. But, in the middle of the night, he suddenly turned to Susan and said: "I must tell you something. All my life I've wanted to be a priest...
...first-day headline: HE'S A GOOD BOY, SOBS G.I.'S MOTHER. A Page One picture was captioned: Grief-Stricken Parents. The news lead read: "A red, white & blue sign reading 'Welcome Home' hangs on the front door of the little frame home...