Word: laments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Particularly in an election year, any politically alert Administration is certain to laud its own accomplishments and, in hope that voters will find them irresistible, lament all the things that remain undone. In this sense, the Johnson Administration is certainly politically alert-as evidenced by its Economic Report sent to Congress this week...
...came the Matter of Britain, the lesson of greatness, and White was its subtle sage. Bombay-born, the son of an Indian army officer, he was "a nostalgic Tory" who had little sympathy for Sir Grummore Grummurson, as he called Colonel Blimp's Arthurian ancestor. White did not lament the decline of empire so much as the withering of English virtues commended by 15th century Printer William Caxton: "Chyvalrye, curtoyse, humanyte, frendlynesse, hardynesse, love." In an age that celebrates the antihero, the neurotic, the schemer, Tim White argued that morality was something worth striving for. His conviction that justice...
...went to the graves of our ancestors for the last time," said Sheik Ahmed Mardani. "The women and children cried and we tried to console them, but we" knew our homes were lost and our lives changed forever." Sheik Mardani's lament was for himself and 100,000 other Nubians in Egypt who last week were being evacuated from their ancestral homeland on the Nile banks. The exodus was necessary because the Aswan High Dam, being built by Egypt with Russian help, next spring will back up the Nile, creating a huge 1,800-sq.-mi. reservoir that eventually...
...most loving consoler of the afflicted, commend to her Son the soul of this servant, John . . . Jesus, Mary and Joseph, assist me in my last agony. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, may I sleep and rest in peace in your holy company . . . Grant, O Lord, that while we here lament the departure of Your servant, we may ever remember that we are most certainly to follow him. Give us grace to prepare for that last hour by a good life, that we may not be surprised by a sudden death but be ever watching, for when Thou shall call that soul...
...LEOPARD. Burt Lancaster gives the finest performance of his career in Luchino Visconti's noble, ironic and richly mournful lament for the death of feudalism in Sicily...