Word: saddest
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Perhaps the saddest dilemma facing South Florida is the plight of the refugees from Haiti. Law enforcement officials pick up about 500 Haitians a month on Florida's beaches, but probably just as many slip in without getting caught. The 600-mile journey from Haiti is often arduous, a measure of how desperately Haitians want to leave their country. Many sell all their possessions and hire professional smugglers, who often starve them, beat them, or even dump them overboard. Others pool their money to buy a makeshift boat and then hire a local fisherman, who may know little about navigation...
...schoolteacher in Bedford Stuyvesant, I can fully attest to the many other troubled teen-agers like Baby Love in that area [Oct. 12]. The saddest part is that the kids aren't aware of another way of life. They simply do not have a choice...
Lilly. Youngest daughter and saddest Berry. Less than 4 ft. tall, she is neither big nor lucky enough to handle her illusions. She becomes a bestselling author before jumping from her 14th-floor New York apartment. Her death underscores the book's most haunting refrain, "Keep passing open windows...
...saddest story of all is Pan American's. Once the undisputed world leader of commercial aviation, Pan Am filled the skies with its elegant Clipper ships and, later, Boeing 747 jets. Yet in April, when Juan T. Trippe, one of the last of U.S. aviation's founding patriarchs, died at 81, the airline he established and built was barely scraping by, subsisting in part on $294.4 million from the sale of its Manhattan office building...
...barest bibliography and footnotes. When she got it back, Photo was dismayed that what was supposed to be the culmination of her academic experience was missing sentences, graphs, and equations. "One of my readers said it was an 'abysmal presentation,'" she says, adding an oxymoron: "I was the saddest magna going...