Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last season it was the Yanks who had a rough stretch struggle. They went into the series a sad and limping collection of invalids. This week they gave Manager Casey Stengel a firm grip on his seventh pennant in eight years, by brushing aside Runner-Up Cleveland 10-3. From here on in it will be all downhill...
...with the swift-changing status of the Japanese woman. But whether she prove phoenix or fossil, the geisha has found a compassionate historian in Author Yamata, a writer who knows how to highlight her heroines against the backdrop of theatrical restaurants and teahouses through whose sliding bamboo panels these sad gay ladies of Japan move to their discreet, historic and bittersweet rendezvous...
...minute "courtesy call" that the Russian charge d'affaires in Rome. Dmitry Pogidaev, had begged of the papal nuncio to Italy. Monsignor Giuseppe Fietta. During the meeting Pogidaev thrust upon Fietta two familiar "peace" propaganda documents, and Fietta read his caller a stiff lecture on the sad state of religious freedom in Russia. Then Pope Pius XII himself slapped down the reconciliation rumors. Before any agreement with "the enemy" could be considered, he reiterated, the church must have full freedom-not merely freedom of worship but freedom "to care for her faithful and freely to preach the message...
...sad point of Babbitt was not so much that Zenith's leading realtor was a philistine, but that he half knew it and hankered vaguely after something more than the life of a rich land shark...
...sad point about Main Street was that Carol Kennicott knew that Gopher Prairie was full of philistines, but did not understand that Chanel No. 5 would never rout a gopher from its hole...