Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...National Association of Manufacturers' Robert Wason: ". . . Good news and a relief to the American people-a sad loss to the lunatic fringe...
Raymond Walburn and Mary Wickes, moviedom Sad Sacks, in company with Jed Prouty and Robert Chisholm, turn in top character jobs all good for the expectable number of laughs. "Don't Be a Woman if You Can" is first-rate patter and "There's No Holding Me" likeable ballad. But there's no getting around something stale--you've heard it before, you've seen it before, and it isn't good enough this time to make you think you haven...
Last week a report by the Army's Chemical Warfare Service told the sad, but not scandalous, facts: 38 officers and enlisted men had been killed and 127 wounded by faulty mortar fire; the casualties were caused by only 63 misfirings out of some 4,000,000 rounds; the defects were in the fuzes, not in the shells supplied by the Garssons...
...sad state of Europe's devastated universities partly explained the shift from previous world centers-Germany, France and England. So, too, did the fact that for war-weary European youths the U.S. looked like the best place to get away from it all. But U.S. technological strides, especially in engineering and medicine, were the biggest lure...
Just why Brazilians had temporarily deserted their lively sambas for a sad-sweet tango about the pampas seemed explainable only by Brazilian saudades-a special Latin kind of homesickness for things and places they have never seen. When last heard from, Adiós, Pampa Mia was heading north. U.S. citizens could get set for a tango in the jukeboxes...