Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recommendation. The House committee handled sad-faced Frank Oppenheimer gently. When he finished his testimony, Senior Investigator Louis J. Russell told the committee that it was only fair to let the record show that General Groves knew all along that Frank Oppenheimer had been a Communist who had broken clean before he went to work on the atomic bomb. "And," added Russell, "Dr. Oppenheimer's loyalty was vouched for by an outstanding scientist." Russell didn't name the outstanding scientist to the committee, but confided it to newsmen afterwards. It was brother Robert...
...gilded clock stood precisely at noon when the court crier raised his sepulchral voice: "Oyez, oyez . . . draw near . . . God save the United States and this Honorable Court." Red curtains parted and into the hushed chamber walked the black-gowned justices of the Supreme Court of the U.S. Led by sad-faced Chief Justice Vinson, they took their high-backed seats, variously shaped and padded to fit their various curves...
Perhaps at that moment in Memorial Hospital, a life frayed with pain and dimmed with morphine is flickering down to the cold. Dr. Rhoads is no callous technician. His confident eyes grow sad when he hears of this everyday event. He looks out the window at the cluttered roofs of New York and at a great bridge roaring with traffic. "It needn't be," he says, "not always...
...many of the facts in the book are new that no such characterization can do it justice. Almost every page of this biography yields some new or little-known fact about Emerson or his contemporaries, and if the first result is to make his life seem slow and somewhat sad, the final one is likely to make his career seem even more extraordinary and his achievement even greater...
...years ago, thin, sad-faced Jack Hurley started the course of instruction; he spent a full week teaching head-punching Vince what a body punch was. Said Hurley to his pupil: "This guy you're going to fight is old and shrewd and he knows how to slip punches at you. You got to hit him in the belly-20 times in the belly the first round." Vince Foster won that fight; Hurley became his permanent manager...