Word: saddest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first battles of a war are fought over territory; the final ones are waged over memory. The lack of recognition of the black Americans who first struggled for the right to train as pilots, then for the right to fly in combat, is one of the saddest lapses in U.S. military history--an important saga missing from most textbooks. Now after decades of struggle, the story of the Tuskegee airmen, and the vicious racism they overcame to become war heroes, will finally reach a wide audience. Starting on Aug. 26, with additional play dates over the following few weeks...
...interesting characters, like Cathy and Pup-Tent, the dysfunctional punk rock couple form "My Hotel Year," the story itself begins to suffer. Before the story can go anywhere, Pup-Tent leaves, and the narrator intrudes to give more self-absorbed commentary. "Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are the people who are unable to connect with the profound..."Just as we are unable to connect the terminally vague...
...saddest part of the problem is if we can't open up again some where else and be a good bookstore, Rosenberg said
...most likely and saddest explanation for the destruction of Norway Field is that the youths who destroyed it simply do not care for their home communities. By their actions, they show no stake or interest in protecting and treasuring those rare collective goods which their neighborhood acquires. The local vandals saw a delicate thing starting to grow in their neighborhood--something other children could make good use of--and they plucked it from the ground and burned it. They should be ashamed. If their own home is not valuable to them, what...
...Brother, was struck that the victim, no matter how troubled, was just a little boy. "His grandmother kept wailing that someone should have been there for him, and I know that's true," says Liss. His photos of the scene, he says, were quite simply "the saddest pictures I've ever taken...