Word: sad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Walter, the PBH coordinator, warns against too much sympathy for inmates. "You've got to take it all with a grain of salt," she says. "It's easy to fall into the trap of their sad stories, because they're all sad. But you've got to remember that every one of them did something wrong...
While the rest of baseball was settling into the season, the Baltimore Orioles were spinning out of the way, reeling from inside pitches too mean to be believed, looking silly and sad. Starting with a 12-0 opener at home, the Orioles lost the first six games for second-year Manager Cal Ripken, who was abruptly fired. Frank Robinson replaced him, and they lost ten more to shatter an 84-year-old major-league record. Once Baltimore was the proudest team in the game, and the winningest...
...sad element of his impatience, frightening to the city that has already lost the basketball Bullets and football Colts, is that Williams is seven surgeries into a heroic fight against cancer. "If I die," he has said, "the team will be sold." Though the city is offering Williams a new stadium, he seems to be resisting signing any lease. A grim knowledge of trustees and their responsibility to highest bidders makes Baltimore wonder if this melancholy team is the final edition...
...then he made the worst political mistake of his life--he told the truth. Mondale told the convention and the nation, "Mr. Reagan will raise taxes. So will I. He won't tell you. I just did." His resounding defeat in November, largely attributable to that pledge, reaffirmed the sad fact that honesty with the American electorate is political suicide...
Part of the blame for this sad irony lies with President Reagan, whose administration has been a case study in the political value of shameless dissembling. His success certainly has inspired Bush, and probably the Democratic candidates as well. But the real guilt rests with us, the voters. We wanted our President to be a collective father figure, an infallible, paternal presence. We wanted to believe Daddy's promises, and to hell with those doomsayers who would disturb our comfortable fantasy...