Word: saddest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peace in Our Time. Jews throughout the world reacted bitterly. The most sensational reaction-and perhaps the saddest because of its mixture of childishness; and hate-came from Paris, where a rabbi had plotted a fantastic raid on London...
Happiness is now within the reach of everyone-everyone, that is, who wants to be a dope. In the British Medical Journal, a distinguished British psychiatrist named G. Tayleur Stockings announced that one capsule of pyrahexyl, a synthetic marijuana-like drug, taken each morning, would make the saddest sack happy...
...saddest work in the Pacific was under way. Thousands of U.S. war dead were being moved from the islands where they died to the islands which the U.S. expects to hold. There they would be reinterred in national cemeteries...
...modern American Church school is the funniest thing in the land-or it would be if it were not the saddest . . . [it] is a tragic fiasco." Thus the late Bishop Fiske (Episcopalian) of Central New York once wrote to The Rev. Kenneth R. Forbes...
...served two years at Fort Sill. Okla.; he went to Manila in 1940. Captured on Bataan, he had shrunk from 145 pounds to 92 by the time Cabanatuan was liberated in January. Army doctors fought to save what the Japanese had left of Jim Newman-one of the saddest cases they had seen of starvation, beri beri, tuberculosis. Other survivors of the prison camps gained weight and strength; Jim Newman did not. A fortnight ago the doctors gave up. flew him home to Fort Worth. He would die, they said...