Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sad Responsibility. Pusan was already choked with 225,000 refugees (normal pop. 400,000), and had to be kept free for the movement of military supplies. At week's end, the U.N. army announced that once again Communist agents had been found among the refugees, ordered more thorough screening (which would be an added burden for U.N. forces...
...sad responsibility toward Korea's refugees, for it had held out to them, at least implicitly, the promise of protection from the Reds. Yet the U.S., itself in a desperate military plight in Korea, could scarcely do more to help the refugees. No one knew what was to become of them if & when the U.N. line once more shrank to the narrow Pusan perimeter-or the U.N. forces were forced out of Korea altogether. Said Eighth Army Commander Matthew B. Ridgway, of the refugees' plight: "Perhaps the greatest tragedy to which Asia has ever been subjected...
...sad duty to report in this case the outsides of the sandwich were far more appetizing than the stuffing (so to speak), which points up the dangers of parodying a magazine which is really funny to people of discernment at whom the Lampoon presumably aims. It also points up the dangers of parodying a magazine which is unread by probably 95 percent of the College community and which, in view of the deplorable situation in the libraries, is also virtually unobtainable. Without having a copy of the original for comparison, it would be completely impossible for the reader...
...McCarthy sad that he brought up the bill again because the Federal Bureau of Investigation, at the recent trial of the eleven Communist leaders, claimed that professors advocated. Communism in their classrooms outright...
...Gentle Art. Occasionally, Fred Bason worried about his writing style, once went for advice to Virginia Woolf ("a tall, thin . . . miserably sad-looking woman . . . not in any way distinguished to look at"). She replied (or so Fred thought): "You would perhaps do well to read Stern." So Fred promptly bought a work by G. B. Stern-"but for the life of me I could see nothing [in it] to teach me the gentle art." On complaining to Mrs. Woolf, ha got back a cross note: "Sterne -Sterne with an E on the end! L. Sterne! V.W." And so, continues Fred...