Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clark would soon take over his new post as Allied military commander in Italy. When he did he would probably reshuffle his staff, probably put into the line Italian troops now nearing the end of their training. But even Clark could not change the Italian theater's sad-sack military role: to keep the pressure on the Nazis with the troops available, while reinforcements went to the western front. For the troops available it would continue to be a hard, dangerous, uncomfortable winter...
...dissonances could kill-and be beamed 3,500 miles-the halls of Berchtesgaden would ring with Adolf Hitler's death yells. Last week the Albert Einstein of music, sad-eyed Composer Arnold Schönberg, took artistic revenue on the man who in 1933 swept him and his cryptic music from the concert halls of the Third Reich. The revenge: a recitation based on the booming rhetoric of Byron's Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, with string orchestra accompaniment by the New York Philharmonic...
Perplexed and questioning, a sad Ibis fluttered back and forth along the Bow Street clothing-store annex with quizzical eye and mournful heart. "Boola, boola," the Blot sobbed; "no more Dutch white lead tiles for sale, but we're expecting a supply of Gothic arches from New Haven shortly...
Sergeant George Baker's "Sad Sack" is a hilarious caricature. But Sergeant Bill Mauldin's weary, grimy, unshaven "Joe," the "Old Bill" of World War II, is by G.I. testimony grimly true to life. Quiet, babyfaced, 23-year-old Cartoonist Mauldin can draw the infantryman truthfully because he has been one himself since he was 18. He has fought and drawn his way through the campaign in Sicily, wears the Purple Heart for wounds received in Italy. "Joe" is beside, behind and ahead of him right now on the southern front in France...
...enjoyed having them around and felt very sorry they couldn't accept the hospitality of our homes, as the majority were ordered to stand by their equipment. The sights we saw as we walked to the shops, bus and work were sometimes funny - and sometimes rather sad...