Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Less hopeful was toothless, 73-year-old Thakin Kodaw Hmine, the Ben Franklin of Burmese independence. "I was unhappy under the British and Japanese," he groaned last week, "but now I am very sad. My young disciples are killing each other like barbarians. I guess this isn't the time for young men to take the lead in government affairs...
...Haifa, Israeli security police hovered anxiously about the new mediator. From Stockholm, Countess Bernadotte spoke to her husband's aide by shortwave radio. Said she: "Give my best to Ralph Bunche. I know what he meant to my husband." Said Mrs. Bunche in Manhattan: "I feel very sad about this appointment ... I can't help but have fears for him as long as he's in that troublesome zone...
...season opened on Broadway last week-with a play that closed after seven performances. Called Sundown Beach, it was a sad little thing in both subject matter and treatment-a bungled tale of flyers who had cracked up mentally in the war and were trying to get out of a convalescent hospital back into life. The new season's second offering, Morey Amsterdam's Hilarities, was far more gaily conceived but not much more happily executed. It proved to be a generally cheesy vaudeville show redeemed here & there by a sort of primitive showmanship...
...four ties. But, as usual, the future looked black to Leahy. As his 72-man squad stepped briskly through its pre-season paces at South Bend last week, Leahy looked ahead to opening day and turned away with a groan. Said he: "September 25 is going to be a sad afternoon. I think Purdue will beat...
...Siberia was warm, and the mammoths fattened on greenery. But little by little, ice accumulated near the cold poles. Then, to balance the mass of the ice, slightly off center, the earth toppled over. The oceans sloshed out of their beds. When things quieted down, the earth was a sad mess, rotating on a new axis. The North Pole, settling near Siberia, quick-froze the mammoths...