Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexico City's pulquerias, sad-voiced tenors strummed guitars and sang: "In this year of nineteen hundred and forty-eight a comet appeared in the sky. Have a care, señores, have a care!" Each dawn last week the comet could be seen in the eastern sky, shooting out its long mane of white fire. The tabloid Prensa Gráfica blamed it for the five slight earthquake shocks that rattled the city during the week...
Landing a good line coach didn't end Herman Hickman's plaintive cries of "I have no line!" After feasting since 1943 on a flock of corn and cornpone-fed Cadet candidates, it must have been a sad realization to meet a group of linemen who didn't all weigh over 200 pounds...
...that their town's young musician is going off to study engineering: "That means you're not returning here . . . You'll work in a factory and forget our gay song." Everyone is silent for a moment, thinking. Then the young Komsomolets replies: "Don't be sad; wait till I finish the Institute. There's plenty for an engineer to do here too." This cheers everybody, somewhat...
...Fleet and Greek Premier Themistocles Sophoulis (who wore dark glasses despite the day's grey overcast). The Premier remarked that Greece's fate rested in George Marshall's strong hands. He might have added that these hands were, as usual, expected to straighten out a sad mess...
...Unconscious & Confession. The means psychiatry uses to make its cures are often experimental, and sometimes obscure. What about its ends? It aims to make its patients "wise up" to themselves -and thus get rid of a mysterious bellyache or a sad, twisted notion that a prince is coming to call any day now. That is an ambitious aim. Is it not, in fact, a challenge to religion on religion's own ground...