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...might-have-beens" connected with such anticlimaxes as the unsuccessful assassination of Hitler on July 20, 1944, the Berlin Blockade of 1948, the soon vanquished East German uprising of June 17, 1953, even the construction of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961 However much we may lament or applaud the eventual denouement of these prospectively momentous watersheds, they did turn out somehow to be arrested turning points, fizzles on the stage of long-term historical developments...
Massachusetts' new "bottle bill" took effect January 17, moving local merchants to lament the five- or 10-cent deposit imposed on purchasers of beverages in returnable containers...
...have no excuse." Yale Coach Frank Keefe said afterwards, refusing to lament the absence of top sprinter Sharon Veitz and top distance swimmer Courtney Ellis. "We weren't missing anyone who isn't on the team." he added. President Bok's daughter Victoria also missed the meet because of strep throat...
...introspective personal account, Ms. Schwartz neglected to include any mention of the human lives lost every day that the "moderate" Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA) remains in power, in direct violation of international law. Ms. Schwartz, 9500 safe miles from Windhoek, can only lament the "death of dreams," but the people of Namibia are living in a situation that can only be described as an all too real, all too hellish nightmare. According to a briefing paper put out by the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa. "The infant mortality rate for Whites...
...which covers the Jews. I could do it because it wasn't betrayal, or a subterfuge. I had discovered where to place it and how not to forget it. The country could accept the Holocaust as a measure of its destiny, not simply within the framework of remembrance and lament...