Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uninitiated watchers the flight seemed a total failure-but not to missilemen. During those awesome 35 seconds, cameras and telemetering devices were recording valuable flight data on miles of film and tape. "As the surgeons say," a sad-eyed missile scientist said bravely, "the operation was a success but the patient died. We got data on the three miles of flight. The next big bird that flies may live a while longer...
...turned his palms up. "What could you do? But I will say this, that the whole thing could have been handled with a little more finesse." It was a sad day when they got in a spot where they has to use troops, he said. "It won't be that way everywhere...
Once in the swing of things at Harvard, one can conform without effort and without even becoming aware of it, all the while thinking one is doing his very best to be different. The sad truth is that very few ways to be different have been discovered at Harvard. To disguise the truth, most conformity cults around Cambridge bill themselves as ways to be different. One can be different at Harvard by being better, and everyone here knows that he is better...
...Sad was Interior last week when the waste of its haste came to light. Barton's check had bounced; his $40,000 on deposit in a Blytheville (Ark.) bank had been withdrawn. Barton blandly explained this oddity: his brother, who disapproved of the deal when he turned over the check, had done the withdrawing from their joint account. But he could not explain away the fact that Seaboard Surety Co., which Barton had claimed would put up the bond, had no plans to do so at all. Unlike Interior, Seaboard had requested proof of Barton's financial responsibility...
...running. A stupid and unimaginative fellow, he enlists the help of Gabin in transporting a freshly slaughtered pig through an obstacle course lined with gendarmes, prostitutes, Nazi soldiers, informers and other keen-nosed dogs. Only the Gallic touch could make such a dangerous journey seem so funny and so sad at the same time. The mishaps that befall the pair have a wonderfully impromptu quality, as if Director Claude Autant-Lara, occasionally glancing at the story (by Marcel Ayme) from which the movie is loosely taken, made up most of the pratfalls and hairbreadth escapes as he went along...