Word: saddest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That night, after watching Nixon's resignation speech on television with his family at home, Ford stepped outside into a slight drizzle to speak to reporters and about 100 cheering neighbors. "This is one of the most difficult and very saddest periods, and one of the saddest incidents I've ever witnessed," he said. It was obvious to all that he meant it. "Let me say that I think that the President of the United States has made one of the greatest personal sacrifices for the country and one of the finest personal decisions on behalf...
...leadership of the Republican Party at large, the fall of Richard Nixon was a moment of genuine distress. Barry Goldwater called it "the saddest days of my life." Many, like Georgia Party Chairman Robert J. Shaw, wept. John J. McCloy, an elder among New York Republicans, called the Nixon speech "a dignified statement, a dignified exit," adding: "We shouldn't expect any more than what it contained; we shouldn't cavil at it now." After watching the Nixon speech in California, Governor Ronald Reagan, who had continued to support the President until only a day earlier, said that...
...patients and throwing the rest into a panic. One small boy rolled on the ground in hysteria and chewed pieces of broken glass. Greek Cypriots defending Nicosia periodically popped into available apartments to sip soda and listen to radio reports of how they were doing. But strangest and saddest of all was that the first battle between Greeks and Turks in seven years had been touched off by bitter animosity between Greek and Greek. The root of the war was enmity between the tall bearded Makarios and Greek Strongman Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannides. Makarios felt that Ioannides, working through Greek...
...Brian Faulkner's five-month-old government, hopes for harmony between Catholics and Protestants were ended, and the prospect was for still more of the sectarian violence that has dominated Ulster for the last five years. Said Faulkner as he gave up his office: "It is the saddest day of my life and for the country I love. Today I fear we are the despair of our friends and the mockery of our enemies...
...This is the saddest day in my life," he said. "It's terrible to see the community you've been involved in all your life turned on its ears...