Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cottages were roofless, blackened earthen walls, through which children and women poked forlornly. On a slope in front of the ruins sat Fang Hu-shih, a wrinkled grandmother bundled in a black padded jacket and trousers. Her silver earrings danced back & forth as she rocked in silent grief. Yesterday at the height of the fighting she had hobbled on her tiny bound feet a mile away to a safe spot in the fields. Behind her now lay the ashes of her hut and strawrick. Had she saved anything? Tears ran down her soot-stained cheeks. She moaned: "All lost...
...their violent attempt to FORCE him from hif legal habitation." And there is the tomb of Benjamin Woodbridge, who died in the first duel fought in Boston, after quarreling with his friend over a game of cards. The friend skipped the country in a British vessel and died of grief in France...
...certain types of action [he] was the outstanding soldier our country has produced ..." Patton knew that Ike had saved his hide more than once, wrote to him after the famous soldier-slapping incident: "I am at a loss to find words with which to express my chagrin and grief at having given you, a man to whom I owe everything and for whom I would gladly lay down my life, cause to be displeased with...
Columbia wasn't the only thing that went down the drain Saturday. The old, all-male cheering section also came to grief in a swirl of skirts and shrill cries of glee from thousands of female throats...
...quick, tremendous, inventive, bold people are to be tested once more." For the third time in history their empire is on the rocks. It broke up once when Joan of Arc smashed the Anglo-French alliance. It abandoned the Channel and reformed across the ocean, only to come to grief again at the hands of George Washington's men. The question facing Britons now, says the Times, "is whether, and, if so, in what shape, it will reform . . . Very few societies have done this trick twice. None, except perhaps the Greek, with Athens, Alexandria and Byzantium to its credit...