Word: laments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...move. Last year the commission lodged charges against 13 officers, directors and key employees of Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. for taking profitable advantage of advance word about the discovery of a huge Ontario ore field of copper, lead, zinc and silver. Among those charged was Thomas S. Lament, now 67, a retired vice chairman of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. and a director of Texas Gulf Sulphur...
...toll is written in history's scroll / In bright, bright lines of red.") to the quasilyrical ("Lay the green sod oe'r me"), Sadler's words are united by the common theme of self-congratulation. Sometimes they approach the sickness of Teen Angel as in Trooper's Lament where, "As he fell through the night, / His 'chute all in flames, / A smile on his lips, / He cried out his girl's name," but generally these songs are the dull and repetitious celebration of America's Best, who are apparently as devoid of personality as they are of cowardice...
...novel starts more promisingly than it ends. Much of its second half is given over to an incongruously earnest subplot concerning a Jacobin revolutionary and his bloody, awful torture at the hands of the government. Even so, readers who remember Giuseppe di Lampedusa and his Leopard's lament for a lost aristocracy will be amused by this compensatory catcall from the other side of the island...
This collection of different programs bothers some members. "The undergraduate sees the United Ministry as a prolifera of one night stands," Blannings says. But other members, such as the Rev. Richard E. Mumma of the United Presbyterian church do not necessarily lament this disunity: "The United Ministry is not an action oriented group," he explains "but action can be taken by the individual...
...However, while I can assure you that small is the number of 'Cliffies who lament through cruel, sleepless nights their debarment from the untold wonders of ol' Lamont, many are they who have gnashed their teeth in furious despair that of the two existing copies of a desired book, one was, as is wonted, mysteriously missing from the Widener stacks, and the other was cackling demonically from the hallowed shelves of Lamont Library...