Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their choice of service; a sergeant could still snarl at a boot: "Nobody asked you to join this outfit, bub." Now the Marines had to go begging. The Marines would presumably still have the right to wash out anyone who couldn't stomach the rugged training. But the sad fact these days, said one Marine major, is that there are just "not enough glory hunters" any more...
...favorable days when "the light is calm," he arranges still lifes of wild flowers, cherries, beans, clusters of garlic or withered leaves on a potting table, paints them against imaginary landscapes in paler, more wistful colors than his old gay studies of Venice and France. "They are a little sad," says De Pisis gently, "because...
...Mute, a sad-eyed man holds out his hands in silent frustration. In The Indomitable Bather, Ayrton catches the humor and pathos of a more familiar subject, "a small boy who finds it bloody cold in the water, but his passionate desire to stay there is greater than the physical discomfort. He feels violently about it, but doesn't say anything, just stands there shivering to death, poor little blighter...
...Pennsy's commuters have been the most vocal because they feel they have suffered the most. The sad and bloody history of the Long Island Rail Road, the Pennsy's bankrupt subsidiary, is not the only black mark. Clevelanders, who have had four suburban stops lopped off in the past year, fear that other stations will soon be wiped off the map. New Jerseyites have formed a "protective association" to get some action on such claimed commutation hazards as wooden trestles, high fares, and cars that let in snow and soot in the winter, heat and grime...
...Ballad of the Sad Café, by Carson McCullers. A novelette, half a dozen short stories and three novels in an impressive omnibus (TIME, June...