Word: laments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gover, of course, is far from being the first writer to lament the prurient curiosity that sex crimes stir in the anonymous public. If his shocking book contained only this one macabre dimension, he might be dismissed as another literary sensationalist trying to deplore his cheesecake and have...
While big business surges to new profit records, the nation's 300,000 small manufacturers complain that the boom is passing them by. Most share the lament of Chairman Glenn H. Friedt Jr. of Detroit's United Platers, Inc., which handles chrome plating for the fast-moving automakers: "I find it embarrassing to admit that this year is no better than last year." Worse yet, Dun & Bradstreet reports that 87% of the nation's 15,800 bankruptcies last year were small businesses, i.e., those with liabilities of less than...
Even the article's final lament-" 'I never had a chance, did I,' Coach Johnny Griffith said bitterly . . ."-was pure fiction, Griffith said...
...succeeds-and his goals in the past have been set far short of actual performance-the nation will have traveled a long way from "the unfortunate country" of Ireland's ancient lament. The varied and lively virtues of the Irish, which in the past have often shaded into weaknesses when they were not vigorously applied to a cause, are the nation's best assurance that it can find the future it seeks for itself. However bright the goal, Ireland will still be many light-years away from the Blest Isle. But-who knows?-they may have their Troubles...
...soon as the first debris was photographed, all search ships zeroed in on Contact Delta. The research ship Robert D. Conrad, of Columbia University's Lament Geological Observatory, dredged up 15 envelopes of gaskets, and the Atlantis found two broken pieces of battery plates. Both gaskets and plates are almost certain to have come from the lost sub. Latest pictures from Conrad show an air bottle of a type used on Thresher and a broken piece of pipe* that was probably once a part of the sub's internal plumbing...