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Word: saddest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...initial speech, to choose one "in which you believe." The worst bugaboo of all is competition: "No law compels people to listen to you. You must interest them. If you don't, a flick of the dial will bring them drama, news, comedians, music or"-the saddest fate of all-"another speaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Don't Shout | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

...have omitted her age from the battalion records), is pleased that no one in Korea has made a pass at her. Says she: "They are so very correct, always. It is all one family, and I am their sister. Oh, they are so fine-I love them all." Her saddest job: writing home to the families of men killed in combat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN AT WAR: Cherchez la Femme | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

From that desk-sergeant's point of view, the CRIMSON coverage of Cambridge police activities is the best joke since Gutenberg. To those whose cars have been tagged, ticketed, or towed in the past two months, your parking tips are the saddest transportation event since brachiation went out. W.E.R. LaFarge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Towed Away | 11/3/1951 | See Source »

Radio Comic Fred Allen wore his saddest face to London, where he talked to reporters about laughs and life. Said he: "I'm the poor man's Will Rogers. There's more poor men than rich men so I have a chance of lasting a long, long time . . . Over in Hollywood, everything gets exaggerated, including people's ideas of themselves. We live in New York. People there are normal-sized. We aim eventually just to live in oblivion and get to the grave without confusion . . . I'm a sad man. I've been leading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Inside Dope | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

...Although they would probably give the accolade for funniest, saddest and best single Thurber story to The Secret Life of Walter Mitty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Priceless Gift of Laughter | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

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