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Word: sad (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Building T-4 (built on the site formerly occupied by Memorial Church). They will hear the lecturettes; they will sit in on the think sessions and RH-29-X meetings; they will be happy in their own inner-directed, typical way. Bronson will take the 11:48 home, sad but wise, and enroll in some third-rate community junior college...

Author: By Secret AGENT X-, | Title: A Look Ahead | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...that running right alongside the air raid shelter and art sanctuary was a path to freedom for Allied airmen. On some of these walls, men whiled away their time by chiseling inscriptions-one of them: "Izzy Bernstein, Brooklyn, passed this way, 1943, on way back to Brooklyn." It is sad to read that what was once a haven for men in war turned into a hellhole in peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 26, 1959 | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...best of the low comic performances is also the most delicate: John Neville's pathetic, feeble-minded, utterly out-of-it Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Dudley Jones plays Feste as a sad, second-rate jester who has a hard time making a living, and his fine performance helps to keep the plaintive note running through the comic scenes (though it points up the fact that William S. Gilbert's Jack Point, constructed on the same basis, is a more interesting character than Feste). Richard Wordsworth (Malvolio), Joss Ackland (Sir Toby Belch), and the other comics play conventionally, with the down...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Twelfth Night | 1/16/1959 | See Source »

...character who can never quite cope with life's ludicrous little defeats. Wherever he slouched in front of an audience-last month on the bare bandstand of a Chicago nightclub, this week before the unforgiving cameras of Ed Sullivan's TV show-it seemed hardly probable that sad-sack Monologuist Shelley Berman could deliver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Confession Comedy | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...Martin's loss to Rep. Halleck is very sad, on the one hand," Rudolph continued. "But, on the other hand, the 1958 election was a liberal victory. The Republicans seem to have taken the results to heart." Martin's 20-year term as GOP leader was ended by the so-called "liberal" faction of his party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Members of Government Faculty Express Regret at Martin Defeat | 1/8/1959 | See Source »

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