Word: sad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Assistant Professor Kenneth Lynn gazed dolefully upon the countenance of a restless mob of 250 in Harvard Hall 4 yesterday, the heavy black circles around his sad eyes suggesting he grows old before his time...
Despite Iranian predictions that there will be an "announcement" next month, the Italian press insisted that the marriage would be "impossible." Epoca cried: "Let's forget state complications. He is a sad and tired man, 20 years older than she. He lives in a dull and distant capital, on the edge of a backward and savage world. His court is oriental, his country uncivilized. Radiant Gabriella needs youth, sunshine and laughter. And then, how could a princess of Savoy, whose title goes back a thousand years, marry a man whose dynasty began in 1930?* Could...
...some backstab aimed in his memoirs (TIME, Nov. 24) at Dwight Eisenhower: "I sent him a copy of my book. The result was silence. I sent him a Christmas card with a very warm greeting, much warmer than to anyone else. Again there was only silence. I am awfully sad if I have lost the friendship of that great and good...
Grace Notes. Betjeman both likes and deplores the sad, cramped lives of city suburbs. His own life is cramped by book reviewing (London Daily Telegraph), a trade he detests, but he has managed some grace notes. His Berkshire country home is an old rectory in Wantage, birthplace of Alfred the Great. There his busy wife Penelope (daughter of Field Marshal Lord Chetwode) hunts and fishes with Pam-like energy, keeps an eye on their son and daughter and runs a thriving tea shop called King Alfred's Kitchen. She puts up jam; he musingly produces about one poem every...
...which he occupied in my employment. [He] lived rent free in my home and was really a member of the family circle; in that relationship, he was present at many discussions within my home, both political and otherwise, that involved matters of confidence and privileged information. I am very sad about the fact that it became necessary to terminate this employee's services, but the facts left open to me no other course of action...