Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent years the world has been altogether too much with Mount Athos to please its pure in heart. For one thing, the world's sad economy has impoverished the religious life even more than need be. Joseph Stalin has stopped the steady flow of Russian funds into Mount Athos, and war and world depression have sharply cut all other income. The ancient sins of luxury have been increasingly apparent both outside and inside the holy ground. Vigorous young monks are rare. "We need young men today more than ever," one Athonite has said, "but they prefer to fatten their...
...upper works, retired underground, and conked Nazis one by one as they tried to enter. Altogether the Nazis claimed 80,000 Greeks in Thrace; possibly there were not more than 30,000. As they were gradually cleaned out, the Metaxas Line took its place in the rank of sad, futile names: Maginot Line, Mannerheim Line, Albert Canal, Carol's Line...
...sabotaged. Portly, balding Admiral Lais (rhymes with Thais), a prominent society man whose accent is not too heavy, whose risqué stories not too slight, is an affable, easygoing gentleman who twirls his mustache and pops his eyes at the sight of an attractive ankle. Last week he was sad. His U.S. wife, Signora Leonora Sutton Evans Lais, daughter of a New York City doctor, and his 19-year-old daughter, Edna, had decided to remain in the U.S. Admiral Lais packed. The U.S. had once more rebuffed the Axis...
...clench your fists, stand at my side. . . . Forward, sons of Hellas, in the fight for body and soul!" A spokesman said: "Greece will fight on, no matter what odds are thrown against her, because she has a soul which can never be extinguished." And the Yugoslavs sang a sad old song: Dusa Moja-My Soul...
...Harriet; he lies elaborately to one about the other; but all his boyish subterfuges fall through. In the end he quits the sloppy vagabondage of the river to go to Tufts. But Dutchy has pushed him almost to the edge of honesty, and the leave-taking is genuinely sad...