Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said one Congressman early in the debate: "The committee labored for three months and brought forth a field mouse." What Now? To Leon Henderson and his Office of Price Administration, the final day of debate was a sad spectacle. Since last April, when OPA was set up, Henderson has had to rely on what he calls "jawbone control," and even Henderson's stout jaw eventually gets tired...
...said that although the picture has "several sad deficiencies," it is, on the whole, "a good job with some excellent parts. Anything wrong in the script you can't blame on me. The good lines are mine...
When Harvard loses I am sad, but it is as nothing compared with the depths of despair into which I am plunged when some accident halts the Ann Arbor juggernaut and Minnesota comes out ahead. That Minnesota game for the past four years has been the bane of my existence, spiritual and financial. My credo states as a fundamental premise that The Little Brown Jug belongs on a shelf in the Perry Field Athletic Building and that it is only a streak of bad luck that has allowed it to stray up to Little Sweden. I have a number...
Lean, Tall, Sad...
...With sad patience, point by point, Cordell Hull composed a statement of how the U.S. official position had been forced to change. By continuing its present war against Russia, after regaining the territory it lost in 1939-40, Finland was thwarting the U.S. policy of aid to nations attacked by Hitler. The Finnish policy of fighting beside the Nazis would bring the war closer to the U.S.; for Finland it could end only in complete subjugation to Hitler. Therefore, unless Finland stopped its war against Russia, it could no longer count on U.S. friendship...