Word: saddest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...homes and pensions for disabled veterans. He tore the field of Gettysburg from the hands of souvenir hunters, made it a national shrine. He arranged the famed Gettysburg reunions of Blue and Grey. General Longstreet became his bosom friend. "[Your stand at Gettysburg]," wrote Longstreet, "was the sorest and saddest reflection of my life for many years; but today I can say . . . that it was . . . the best that could have come...
...decided to ask for volunteers. ... I had a lump in my throat at the hands which went up before the words were scarcely out of my mouth, and at the cries of 'Please let me stay!' ... As our trucks pulled away at dusk, it was the saddest day in my 32 months in the Army...
...artists delicately tuned their queer looking instruments to the note A from a piano. Then they played some of the eeriest, sweetest, funniest, saddest, sourest and most heavenly music ever heard. The first concert of the sextet of emiritons roused occasional flutters of approval and once in a while a great burst of laughter. Bach, Mozart, Wagner, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven never batted...
...Passage to India was first published in 1924. Beautiful, ironic, crystal-clear, intense - "one of the saddest, keenest, most beautifully written ironic novels of the time" - at once "a political document of the first importance," "a masterpiece of subtle characterization" with "a story that moved like a house on fire," A Passage to India evoked tremendous critical enthusiasm. In 20 years it sold almost 100,000 copies in the U.S., yet it never became an integral part of ordinary U.S. cultural life or political thought...
...Saddest of all in food-loving, fun-loving Manipur today are the maids of marriageable age. When no war threatens and the moon is right, custom lets them waylay young men, strip and hold them until they pay the price demanded. If the victim demurs, they may lock him up until he changes his mind. When next the moon is right, no men will be on hand to play-if they heed the Maharaja's call...