Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Between the U.S. and China there is at present sad lack of contact and understanding. Communists and those they use . . . have succeeded in making Americans with some notable exceptions believe that China is only chaos, gloom, and doubt. ... So pervasive and persistent is that feeling that Americans prefer to sit back and wait, so far as China is concerned...
...there' and 'their' mixed up for the one-millionth time. . . . The most interesting thing about teaching is not what-you already know, but how much you learn and need to learn. A teacher who 'knew it all' would be nothing but a sad automaton, but I've never met one. Most of us don't know very much, but we keep on trying because the children insist...
White-haired Princess Hermine, 59, widow of Kaiser Wilhelm II, did some reminiscing. "The Kaiser," she recalled, "was a wonderful man . . . very sad about the [second] war, and detested and distrusted Hitler." She herself was living in Frankfurt an der Oder in the Russian zone. She had "lost everything" except two tables and a chair, but she is still addressed by close friends as "Your Majesty...
...good country. A month in the Britain outside London is enough to convince anybody that there is a lot of vigor and promise left in the people who live the real life of this island and who do its real work. The alien traveler returns to London with a sad feeling that all these confident, energetic, likable Britons whom he has just met don't know what has hit them. But their strength has always been that they never know when they are down,* and maybe that matters more than anything else...
...with Hupp. This was a long way from the one Hupmobile with which Founder Carl Eric Wickman, whose sad eyes seem to be always peering through a windshield, started in 1914. An immigrant from Sweden, Wickman carried passengers on the dirt roads fanning out from Hibbing, Minn. Practically in at the birth of the bus business, his infant line grew by gobbling up his one-car competitors...