Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weekly journalism's advantages of second thought and third look, TIME this week reports the high drama of the post-midnight confirmation vote-not only the result, but how and why it came about, what the press said, and what the likely consequences are. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, "This Sad Episode," and related stories...
...truly valuable associate in the business of government. More than this-if the nation is to be denied the right to have as public servants in responsible positions men of his proven character, ability and integrity, then indeed it is the American people who are the losers through this sad episode...
...clinics, community centers, shops and a library. Even an African nursery school lay in ruins, identifiable the next morning only by the charred remains of a child's kiddy car. A burning truck hurtled off a road and crushed a passer-by to death. Around one ruined clinic, sad-faced mothers squatted in bewilderment, not knowing what to do about the sick and hungry babies strapped to their backs...
...face, which she can work like a rubber mask, turns from sunny to sad, from Harlequin to Columbine, with imperceptible art. Her lips can tremble like a child's on the verge of tears or curl with three-martini irony; her blue eyes can blink in puppy-dog innocence or wink in complicity with all the world. Perhaps her most typical expression is that of a pixy hooked on happy pills, but she can also look like a small kitten that has just swallowed a very large canary, a waif who has lost her bus ticket home, a country...
...there is no room, really-but the mother accepts it and says no more. It is only after the son has dutifully squired her on the tourist's round and packed her back to Africa that he comes to a tormenting realization: "She may well be, in the sad, sandy Eastern Province, even more ashamed of him than he in London had been...