Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brain-Truster Tugwell, tarnished glamor boy of the New Deal, had a chance in Puerto Rico to make a political comeback. Thanks largely to the good offices of bearish, sad-eyed Luis Muñoz Marin, President of Puerto Rico's Senate, he seemed to be making...
...American prisoners from Wake Island arrived in Yokohama yesterday. They had a very sad expression on their faces, but they are admiring the Bushido treatment* they received on the boat from the Japanese. They are grateful for the accommodations given to them in the way of hospitalization. At the beginning they could not eat Japanese pickles, but after trying a few they have taken a liking to them. . . . During their voyage they displayed their typical American individualism, but the Japanese trained them to be more cooperative. ... On the boat, the Japanese exerted every effort to thrash out American individualism...
Envisioning a sad and sugarless day, proprietors of the local eating-places have removed their sugar bowls from the reach of eager "sweet-thieves" to the safe confines of the counter...
...Bock doesn't know how to explain the very definite improvement in Harvard health. Since 1935 each year has seen a sad increase in the medical requirements of students. Dr. Bock said that as early as last spring he "had a hunch" that there would be less patients this year. Evidently some sort of cycle is at work, and Harvard is on the upswing at the moment. If the United States as a whole is at the same stage, it would seem that Japan chose a singularly inauspicious moment for her attack...
...victory also had its sad aspect when little Joe Romano got the worst of a struggle for the ball with Captain Stub Pearson of the Indians. The flashy forward tore a ligamont in his knee near the end of the first half and will be out of action for the next three or four weeks. He was treated for the injury Saturday night and will be treated again today...