Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was a sad mistake for the Mead forces. Up welled a great shout: "Bennett!" The cries for Mead were drowned. A few delegates with Mead banners tried to parade, found themselves embarrassingly alone...
...sad Sunday of Sept. 3, 1939, when Britain entered another state of war against Germany, Dr. Quo Taichi, Chinese Ambassador to London, took a late afternoon stroll in his garden. He looked up into the dull grey skies. "Soon," said he, "the air is going to be black with pigeons coming home to roost." Last week in Chungking, Dr. Quo, now chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Supreme National Defense Council, looked again into the future. Not all the pigeons of past errors had yet come home. But there had been enough to convince...
...sad-faced British colonel shifted his weight, stoically posed for his photograph. The man taking his picture was that cameraphile, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. With some Indian troops in his command, the colonel had been seized during the confused fighting in the desert. His captors had hauled him in to exhibit him to the victorious Field Marshal of the Afrika Korps...
...colonel, seized several lorries and chugged away in the darkness. Twice the next day, on their dash along the desert road, they overtook German brigades. Each time they blew their horns, waved their arms wildly. The well-disciplined Germans moved briskly aside to let them through. Last week the sad-faced British colonel was behind his own lines again...
...brilliance of the boys from Westover Field, but a ninth inning error and some very sloppy fielding on the Crimson that turned victory into defeat at twilight yesterday and made it a sad day for Stahhmen, to the tune...