Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among them: Captain Calamai, his uniform grimy, his braided cap gone, his face solemn and sad. Next day Stockholm limped in at seven knots and docked with more than 500 survivors. On the pier, some families who had gone from ship to incoming ship searching for kin turned and sadly walked away...
During one of the court-martial intermissions, McKeon, in the hallway, walked up to a plain, sad-faced little woman. She was Mrs. Maggie Meeks of Savannah, mother of one of the drowned boots...
Best scenes are those of the late great Andalusian Manolete, who was fatally gored in Linares, Spain in 1947 at the age of 30. The long-nosed, sad-eyed Manolete performs the weaving dance of death with the black bull in a manner as purely simple and beautiful as he himself was homely, gives the aspiring aficionado a hint of the poetry of blood that has fascinated writer-intellectuals from Théophile Gautier to Hemingway...
...confusion among the Communists as to how to respond to Poznan had its counterpart outside the Iron Curtain, where admiration for the brave resisters was tempered by the sad realization that they must pay for their defiance and could not be helped. This very human reaction, which was widely shared, was perverted into something else by some British Laborites, who deplored the Poznan uprising as a check to what they deemed to be the beneficient evolution of Communism. Laborite Richard H. S. Crossman, who flits in and out of the Bevan camp like an overgrown lightning bug, was upset that...
...Switzerland, fat, sad ex-King Farouk of Egypt, who still cherishes the notion that he was a benign despot, succeeded in looking like a benign father. His three daughters (Ferial, Fadia, Fawzia) are by Farida, his first wife, who in three tries bore him no male heirs. At his knee, Farouk fondly held Prince Ahmed Fuad II, 3, a winsome lad and sole product of his second queen, Narriman Sadek...