Word: laments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course of my tour here at Harvard, I have been confronted with every kind of a problem from the anxious twitchings of an expectant father popping into the office at regular five minute intervals for news of "that phone call," to the sad lament of a jilted romeo whose best girl forsook his unpredictable Navy Blue Baker for the consistent khaki of an Army Officer. Because I have lent a patient ear, and have even, upon request, given my Yeomanly advice, I have heard myself referred to on occasion as "Mr. Anthony," Concerning this last tribute, of which I must...
Here was no lament that Russia was bearing the burden alone, that the Allies were slow to launch a promised second front. But here, too, was a subtler form of the old reminder and the old urgency: "Hitlerite Germany and her armies are shaken and are undergoing a crisis, but they are not yet defeated. It would be naive to suppose that the catastrophe would come of its own accord and as part of the present course of events. Two or three more such powerful blows are necessary from the west and the east...
...complaints that the catalogue has engendered already, and those which will crescendo in force as more summer study cards receive serious attention, center in the scientific branches of instruction. Premedical students lament their inability to complete requirements as hopefully planned. Physics, biology, and chemistry majors air grievances of conflicting lab and lecture hours, and of irreconcilable examination groups. The uninitiated to curricular complexities moan because the catalogue is too thin, if for no other reason...
Into the New Deal. When the crash came, Morgan joined with other bankers to stem the tide. A $240,000,000 pool was formed to bolster the market-a gesture which failed. "There is no man nor group of men," said the top-ranking Morgan partner, realistic Thomas W. Lament, "who can buy all the stocks that the American public can sell." The market crashed on down. In 1933 came the New Deal, and with it the campaign against "princes of privilege" and "economic royalists...
...well do Roy Hendrickson and Parse Parisius know that the 1943 food problem will not be solved by exhortation and lament, but by painfully undoing the blunders which have reduced the "best-fed nation" to conditions in some places bordering on a food panic. Evidence of how badly someone had blundered...