Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...witnesses and raising legal points in a futile attempt to keep the prosecution from using its most incriminating evidence. But he left the closing argument to Defense Attorney Margaret Good. She attacked the case against him as "flimsy and unscientific." Said she of the bite marks: "It is a sad day for our system of justice if a man's life can be put on the line because they say he has crooked teeth...
DOUGLAS FRASER, U.A.W. president: I can't think of any leaders. Isn't this sad? God, that's what's wrong with this country! That's exactly what's wrong...
...with a slap on the wrist," he complains Yant is now working on a book about his experiences, while trying to straighten out his lawsuits and his life. He has gained one perspective. "I came here thinking this would be the typical mid-American city," he says. "The sad thing is, it just maybe...
...welter of recriminations, sadly enough, a crucial OAU report warning of "impending disaster" for Africa's deteriorating economies was given short shrift. The perfunctory debate over the study, which recommended the creation of a Common Market for the continent, tended to justify a sad remark by Liberian President William Tolbert. Most issues, concluded the OAU host and conference chairman, had been "decisively unaddressed...
Repression and prudishness have long been a sad fact of Russian life. Long before the Communists, songs and folklore told of heroines suffering at the hands of men, and mothers have traditionally told their daughters, "If he doesn't beat you, he doesn't love you." Indeed, says Stern, sadomasochism and drink often rule the male-female relationship. He writes: "Violence, alcoholism, and sex form an explosive cocktail, making the line between 'normal life' and criminal pathology extremely fine...