Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christian Democrats replied by accusing the Socialists of "sad, unGerman, undemocratic party politics...
...years ago, regarded him as dilettante, dreamer, revolutionary and bohemian. Muñoz is a husky, stoop-shouldered man with eloquent dark eyes, a big nose, a cleft chin and furrowed brow. Except when he is amused or surprised, his face has a kind of built-in sad-angry expression...
...million ... in which you could not distinguish the rich from the poor." The observer, New York Times Columnist Anne O'Hare McCormick, had spent half a lifetime observing the world's wars and truces, its generals, its despots, and its sad and patient masses. On the steps of St. Patrick's, she thought...
Paris was as gay as ever. The dressy set had recovered from the Four Seasons Ball, and was studying pictorial evidence of the shindig's stylish fauna & flora: Britain's Lady Diana Duff Cooper, wife of the former ambassador to France, as a sad unicorn; Couturier Jacques Fath and Mme. Fath as tame tiger and roe, and Schiaparelli, in something she had run up herself as a carefree radish...
Even with its reduced strength, the Pacific fleet should be able to handle any threat directed against the U.S. itself. But U.S. allies in the western Pacific were understandably reluctant to lose the morale effect of U.S. forces on the spot. And Navy men were as sad as if they were leaving an old friend. For 27 years, the Pacific had been the Navy's ocean. They would miss its warm waters and its good weather. Said one admiral wistfully: "The Atlantic is a hard, cruel ocean...