Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week added grief came to Gabriele Mussi. The radio announced that No. H-64306 had won first prize of 50 million lire ($80,000). How could Gabriele prove that the winning number was rightfully his? He appealed to the film company for help. With 300,000 postcards to riffle through, and the added likelihood that Gabriele's stampless card had not arrived at all, the film people refused...
...show. But Ziegfeld dies, Bungalow is shelved, and Olga develops cancer. While her life is ebbing, Tightpants has to keep his upper lip stiff and accompany two comedians "in a battle with lemon meringue pies." Tears pour from the stone Madonna's eyes, her breast turns red with grief. When Olga goes to Heaven the Madonna stops crying and turns "to purest white...
...Lucknow, meaning the U.S. "An affront to peace," said the big Times of India. "History will not pardon her [the U.S.]" said Calcutta's conservative Amrita Bazar Patrika, "if humanity is pushed into another holocaust by her myopic politicians." But there were notable exceptions to the cries of grief and indignation. In staunchly anti-Communist Greece and Turkey, pro-government papers backed the U.S. position. In London, Beaverbrook's Daily Express raised a lone voice blaming the government for letting India "drive a wedge between Britain...
...tide of war had begun to turn at Saratoga in the autumn of 1777, when Britain's grand plan to take the Hudson River Valley and thus split the colonies came abruptly to grief. General John Burgoyne, with 8,000 British and Hessian troops, came south from Canada almost unopposed. But General Howe, who was to go north to meet him, sailed away to take Philadelphia instead. An American army under General Horatio Gates blocked Burgoyne on high ground on the west bank of the river. Soon it did more: Benedict Arnold, the most daring, most ambitious, most feared...
Queen Mary's grief was soon to be compounded by the news that her eldest and, as many thought, dearest son had chosen to abdicate in favor of a woman who was a commoner, an American, and a divorcee. Through the rest of her life, Queen Mary refused to receive the woman whom Edward loved, but as a mother, she pleaded for her son. "I know," she told the people of Britain that irrevocable day in 1936, "that you will realize what it has cost him to come to this decision." Windsor, without his wife, rushed from Florida...