Word: mourning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...none of his trademarks: it is neither florid nor lyrical nor autobiographical; not even Welsh. By rights, such a first experiment should be an unplayable mess, hinting vaguely at possible successes if the new craft could be mastered. But, amazingly, it is alive and viable, and occasion to mourn the greatness of the plays that must surely have died unwritten with their author...
Certainly it is right for every religious group to mourn a departed leader, and for every citizen to mourn the passing of a great person no matter how far he agrees with him; but it is wrong and unconstitutional for a state official and the Governor to let a state symbol serve for what could be considered a sectarian gesture...
...John: "In the beginning God expressed himself. That personal expression, that word, was with God and was God, and he existed with God from the beginning." In the Beatitudes, too, many will take issue at Phillips' rendering of the "poor in spirit" as "humble-minded," "they that mourn" as "those who know what sorrow means," "the meek" as "those who claim nothing," and the "pure in heart" as "the utterly sincere...
...some form of Ydigoras-Cruz truce, possibly to give the general the presidency but modify his wilder tendencies and guarantee continued U.S. assistance. The best hope for the future is the precedent of a notably free and orderly election. In mulling over the recent past, Guatemalan moderates could only mourn that Castillo Armas was cut down before he succeeded in easing political restrictions, building up a strong successor and demonstrating the ultimate benefits of his economic alliance with...
Last week, at 73, Petru Groza died of intestinal cancer-the first and most unlikely front man the Communists used in their drive to sovietize Eastern Europe. The Reds marshalled thousands to mourn at his funeral, quickly elected another political nonentity, Foreign Minister Ion Maurer, as his successor...