Word: saddest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Institute of Politics this spring, decried the nation's current laws, saying. "This is horrendous--no one is safe." Speaking at a fund-drive event in Sanders Theater, President Bok expressed his regret for the incident and related a phrase heard many times that day, calling it the saddest reaction to the shooting that he had heard: "a gentleman told me he was shocked but not surprised...
...those of us who work in a crisis center that serves victims of sexual and domestic violence, some of our saddest clients are wives who are victims of their husbands' S-M sexual activity. They are invariably middle-aged and middle-class women. Our experience is that S-M is frequently not "consensual activity that pleases both partners," but rather the exploitation of sensitive, dependent women by angry, inadequate...
...Saddest Moment: The senseless murder of John Lennon by a fan, which silenced one of the most brilliant music makers of the century...
...PROTESTERS: Theirs is the saddest story of the whole affair. Stork and Hagen lost a couple of dozen hours spent in court, and quite a bit of sleep. But the more than 150 protesters who marched through Quincy House courtyard that Friday night lost much more--the impact of one of the biggest protests ever organized by campus feminists was twisted and muted by the arrests. Within an hour, instead of basking in the glow of a job well done, they were feverishly preparing a one-page statement explaining that they did not condone censorship and arrests. The people...
...Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who bestowed upon him command of the armed forces. Confident and ebullient, he promised to rebuild Iran's battered economy in accordance with the Islamic socialist theories he had developed as a doctoral student at the Sorbonne. Yet somehow Abolhassan Banisadr, 46, has become the saddest political casualty of the Islamic Republic; his clerical enemies in the Revolutionary Council have reduced him to a figurehead chief executive, frustrating his every move. Two weeks ago, in an admission of defeat, he handed in his resignation to Khomeini, to be exercised at the Ayatullah's discretion...