Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Years of frustrated desires and months of delicate negotiations were concealed in a few paragraphs of turgid prose that lay before the eleven diplomats of the U.N. Security Council one day last week. Its title was Draft Resolution Doc. S-3502. Its fate rested with one man who sat, sad and misleadingly tranquil, behind the name plate of China...
Officers and Gentlemen, by Evelyn Waugh, a satire on Englishmen in World War II, was very funny when it roasted spivs and fake heroes, but Tory Waugh was really a sad man when he wrote this fine book. It was about the impulses that make men rise to moral bigness, the disillusionment which comes in the discovery that sacrifices cannot do much to change other humans' natures. It was almost a dirge on the softening of England's national character...
...Most Home Runs: the Giants' Willie Mays, with 51; Most Runs Batted In: the Dodgers' Duke Snider, with 136. ¶ By the biggest margin ever, the American Football Coaches Association named Michigan State's Hugh ("Duffy") Daugherty Coach of the Year. After last year's sad season (when the Spartans won 3, lost 6), Duffy fielded a team that whipped Notre Dame 21-7, won all its other games but one (a 14-7 loss to Michigan), and earned a trip to the Rose Bowl. ¶ High-school athletes seeking the best market for their talents...
Twenty-eight-year-old Odette has made her tiny, seventh-floor hotel room in Montmartre a haven for the sad, overpainted tarts who climb the spiral stairs for a chat, a prayer or a good cry. Sometimes, too, they ask for help in finding a decent job, and help is always forthcoming. In a dilapidated garret in the suburb of Aubervilliers live Andree, Juliette and Colette-each 24, each working in a factory. Colette- and Juliette work in the nearby Tungsram plant, Andree in the Citroen factory 'in Asnieres. Despite her training years in factory work, Andree...
...answer better than that of the U.S. Navy captain who investigated the fate of Mary Celeste in 1873. "I hope and expect," he wrote in his official report, "to hear from her crew. But if we should never hear of them again, I shall remember with interest this sad and silent mystery...