Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...allowed himself to be led to the Indoor Athletic Building to be taught how to do the calisthenics he was going to give to his classes. But when the two conspirators urged the unfortunate mentor to do a double-flip, he landed on his neck, and brought on the sad condition he is in at present...
...best of his knowledge, Morize said, the recent British raids on Paris have done nothing to alienate the feelings of the population. "They consider it a sad, tragic necessity," he stated, revealing that the French have often sheltered British aviators forced to land on their soil, and that French women decorated the graves of British pilots killed in action...
...character of a national catastrophe." These sentiments Ambassador Gaston Henry-Haye echoed in Washington to a totally unimpressed Sumner Welles, who called the raid "legitimate" and who three days before had said that the U.S. would recognize Free French New Caledonia. The British seemed quite sure that the sad and sensible people of Occupied France would understand and approve what they had done. De Gaullist circles in London assured them of that. All over France men had died for minute, perilous acts of sabotage that could not have accomplished in years what the British had done in one night...
...could get any sensible action at home, to his old chum, the King. Said His Majesty, gratefully: " 'Well, what would Britain do without the common men and women of Yorkshire?' " " 'Ah don't know,' Sam said. 'But it'll be a sad day if they ever...
Back in the Germany of 1932 it became clearer every day that she must leave: "the people seemed sad, and gruff. . . ." She saw her two sons drifting towards Naziism, and realized, seismographically rather than rationally, what Europe was in for. "I packed up my children and came." She became a U.S. citizen two years...