Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York City last week, associations of tavern-owners and saloonkeepers called sad-faced meetings to consider the rising cost of beer. "I don't think we'll be able to reduce the size of the glass," said President Robert Degnan of the United Restaurant Liquor Dealers of Manhattan, Inc. "There wouldn't be anything left." That left only one solution-the 15^ beer...
Like a man wronged by a trusted friend, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru last week released the texts of a sad little three-note exchange with Chinese Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung on the subject of Tibet...
...true . . . that in the last forty years the peoples and nations of the world have made many terrible mistakes; it is a sad thing that more than half of such a book as this should have to be devoted to the problem of warmaking. Yet even so, it is well also to reflect how much worse the state of mankind would be if the victorious peoples in each of the two world wars had not been willing to undergo the sacrifices which were the price of victory. I have always believed that the long view of man's history...
...Sad Part. All this wealth, recognition and acclaim is in dramatic contrast to the record of Capp's earlier years. Li'l Abner's creator, who was born Alfred Gerald Caplin in New Haven, Conn., in 1909 (he shortened his name to Capp in signing the strip, changed it legally in 1949), grew up amid a ferocious struggle with poverty. His father, Otto Caplin-a glib, cheerful, optimistic man who studied law at Yale, had a dilettante's interest in art and nursed continual schemes for making his fortune-managed to eke out only the barest...
Blandings' Way, by Eric Hodgins. The faintly sad story of what happened to Mr. Blandings when he moved into his dream house and became a citizen of suburbia (TIME...