Word: sad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...back to America and you're not the American darling," Joyner continued. "You don't have any endorsements. You say, `Hey, I'm going to throw some names out there because I don't want anyone else to get them.' It's just petty jealousy. It's sad that it's in our sport...
...book that doesn't exist," he said. "The book that is worth killing people for and burning flags for is not the book I wrote." As Rushdie saw it, his book "isn't actually about Islam, but about migration, metamorphosis, divided selves, love, death, London and Bombay." The sad irony, he said, is "that after working for five years to give voice and fictional flesh to the immigrant culture of which I am myself a member, I should see my book burned, largely unread, by the people it's about -- people who might find some pleasure and much recognition...
...added that when local aid funds are cut, which seems likely in the current squeeze, "local education will probably take it on the nose. Kids come last in local politics. That's the sad fact...
...brother program not because he wants a little sibling, but because he needs the money. The Nunn plan will take the "volunteerness" out of community work, and the whole notion of "one thousand points of light" as the driving incentive becomes monetary. It would be a sad outcome if community work is associated only with those who have to work, those who are poor...
That publishers find swimsuit issues so profitable is also a sad commentary on American males...