Word: saddest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...saddest reports to come from this year's pre-season football camp was the news that Ron Jellison, the fleet California-born running back who sat out last year after fracturing his skull in a 1978 intrasquad scrimmage, had been advised by team doctors not to attempt a comeback...
...aptly of some Labor leaders, "They would really have liked to campaign on the basis of pulling out of Europe." In an election that produced a voter turnout of only 32%, the Tories took 60 of the country's 81 seats, leaving the Laborites with only 17. Saddest of the losers were the Liberals. Though they gained 1.7 million votes, or 13.1% of the British total, the Liberals won no seats at all because Britain eschewed the proportional representation method of allotting seats that prevailed elsewhere...
...subject to at least one rough check: prices cannot rise so high that the buyers simply become unable to pay. That used to be true of medicine, too, in the now dimly remembered days when patients paid nearly all the bills out of their own pockets. No more: the saddest irony of the medical inflation is that it has been triggered largely by an effort to bring quality medical care within everyone's reach...
...Mexican oil and gas, and López Portillo knows that, but the issue is now tangled with national pride. In Mexico City last week, leftists were urging Lopez Portillo not to back down during his talks with Carter. Advised Gaston Garcia Cantu in the magazine iSiempre!: "The saddest destiny awaits those on whom the Americans bestow the dubious title 'Mister Amigo.' " Several thousand students demonstrated in Independence Plaza, carrying anti-Carter placards and chanting "iFuera...
Jimmy Carter's favorite authors are Dylan Thomas and James Agee, but this week the speed reader from Plains may be pondering the works of Rudyard Kipling ("If") and John Greenleaf Whittier, who wrote, "Of all sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are these: 'It might have been.' " It might have been that if Carter had taken certain steps earlier, inflation would be lower, the economy would be stronger and the President would be more popular. Hindsight, of course, is one of the few cheap things in this inflationary age. But it has value...