Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...floor, jubilant Cabot Lodge, Ike's campaign manager, was being mobbed by photographers. Some Taft delegates still were stunned. Ohio's handsome John Bricker, white-haired and white-suited, appeared on the rostrum, sad but scarcely surprised. He had known that morning that Taft was, in all likelihood, beaten, and he had prepared himself for the painful duty that awaited him-the speech ending convention bitterness and calling for unity. In a low voice, in chill contrast to the thumping oratory of previous days, Bricker announced: "Senator Taft has communicated with me . . . He and General Eisenhower have already...
...Braille learned to play the organ, and out of the institution's pitiful collection of embossed books, each divided into 20 parts, each part weighing 20 pounds, Haüytaught the boy the rudiments of reading. Though perpetually racked by his cough, Louis proved an able student. "This sad little dark boy," as Haüy called him, became both a teacher and an accomplished musician...
...John T. Biggers, 28, a Negro who took his M.A. in art education at Pennsylvania State College, migrated to Texas in 1949 when he was offered a $6,000-a-year job at Houston's Texas Southern University and a chance to keep drawing his sad pictures of tired newsboys and harvesters...
Tewfik Pasha Abul Huda hurriedly summoned a special meeting of Jordan's Parliament in Amman last week and swore all the members to secrecy. Then, as his eyes moistened behind his large, horn-rimmed glasses, the Prime Minister of Jordan told the assembled deputies and senators a sad story...
...patient and less violent," he admonished her. Yet the illustrious sculptor was fond of Gwen, and wrote frequent letters scolding about her health. And even after she entered the Roman Catholic Church she clung to Rodin for love and comfort. "My heart is like a sea which has little sad waves," she wrote. "But every ninth wave is big and happy...