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Word: sadnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem," he says, "is unendurably sad." Dr. Huggins refuses to lower his sights: "What I'm interested in is widespread cancer, the kind that is too big to be removed by surgery or treated by radiation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer & Glands | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

...prophet Jeremiah was hardly more sorrowful than sad-faced General Charles de Gaulle, announcing his decision last week to disband his political party. De Gaulle has always had a distaste for what he calls "the sterile games of politics." Although his Rally of the French People polled 4,300,000 votes in the 1951 elections and, next to the Communists and Socialists, is the largest party (85 seats) in the National Assembly, De Gaulle announced that henceforth his party members will act "in their individual capacity ... in the games, the poisons and the delights of the system." Reason: declining public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Jeremiad | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...Confusion of Rulers. "The world knows it, the world which witnesses the sad parade of our political fair; the French people feel it, including those who, by habit, passion or interest have fought my efforts and who hide their remorse under reproaches or insults. Events prove it: the tragedy of the budget, economic stagnation, social injustices, trouble in North Africa, reverses in Indo-China, the lethargy of the nation, the confusion of the rulers who deliver to the foreigner the tattered remnants of a sovereignty which they can no longer bear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Jeremiad | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...farmers in the Isle of Man to get a genuine rumpy torn (long hind legs and a dimple where his tail should be) and give him the run of a farmyard stocked with a dozen ordinary female cats. Some of his produce will be ordinary cats; some will be sad little stumpies, but others will be rumples, worth ten guineas ($29.40) when shipped to Manx cat lovers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rumples & Stumpies | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...hope," Yoskowitz said, "that a single small dramatic organization with an ambitions program will convince the University of the need for a theatre. At the same time we can't help feeling sad that the Theatre Group's four years are over...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lukas, | Title: HTG Votes to Disband; Members to Join HDC | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

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