Word: sad
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sad thing is, Kwame Kilpatrick was becoming a good mayor and making some progress. He had a brilliant future." - Michael Smith, Detroit historian, on Kilpatrick's resignation (New York Times, Sept...
...some of Stevens' associates, there are signs of resignation. Longtime friend Jack Roderick (the two men once practiced law together in the '60s) sounded subdued when reached at his Anchorage home. "It's sad," he said. "It's just sad on a personal level." Roderick, however, defended his old friend's motivations. "No question he showed bad judgment to get associated with a guy like Bill Allen. He got sloppy," said Roderick. "But he didn't intentionally do any of this...
...cities had already arranged housing for the volunteers, and the Dems had begun working on arranging local transportation. “It’s consumed my life for the last two weeks, and I can’t get that time back, so I understand the sad and disappointed feelings,” Zafran said. Harvard students who had signed up to travel to Georgia and North Carolina may instead go on the group’s previously planned four-day trips to New Hampshire. Though Zafran said that the New Hampshire trip would be equally as beneficial...
...middle-aged men who keep the flame of jetpack obsession alight are a quirky, entertaining bunch, united by their "heart-wrenchingly beautiful dream" to fly "like a twisted bird, for a wingless, breathless twenty-two second orgasm in the air." Montandon paints funny, faintly sad portraits of this group. "These are the anonymous, doughy faces of obsession," he writes. Among them is Jeremy McGrane, a 32-year-old New Hampshire resident who built his own "beautifully sleek, blue-corseted rocket belt," and who speaks candidly about the all-consuming nature of his pursuit: "Most guys are dreaming of alcohol...
...wanted to emphasize the comedy, because it is a very sad story...that sense of imbalance is important, so I wanted to draw out both the pathos and the humor,” she says...