Word: sad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...made most sad by the fact that there are people in the computing community who have have glorified Morris' actions--this sets up an inappropriate award structure for this kind of action," Friedell commented. "This makes me wonder even more what I can expect out of students...
...candidates to enjoy just so many benefits of ordinary life. Going to a psychiatrist or marriage counselor, for example, is still strictly taboo, and making such a step public can be politically damaging, if not fatal. Kitty Dukakis, wife of Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis, thinks it a "sad commentary" that President Reagan referred to her husband as an "invalid" last August, after baseless rumors circulated that he had once sought counseling. "Everyone who needs help should be able to get it," she says. "It should never become a political decision...
Harvard opened the Ivy League Tournament with a four-set loss to Cornell. The Crimson was not sad, just frustrated that it had not played better. Unlike Harvard teams of old--which would have been happy to extend the match to four sets--this Crimson unit thought it should have...
...landscape, viewed through a peculiar window a foot high and perhaps ten feet long. There are sea, land and river mouths, but the whole is rendered abstract and emotionally disturbed by the odd shape and the subtle colors. It is a plain and impenetrable as Dylan's "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands," despite helpful paper signs by the staff labeling various blotches as particular rivers...
...will be a sad day indeed when the Celtics versus the Lakers is as boring as Phoenix versus New Jersey...