Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...labeled with a white cloth tag, shoes tied onto feet with string to keep them from pulling off in the ankle-deep mud. Each carried a pathetic bundle of possessions-straw bedding, aluminum kitchenware, a canteen or blackened teakettle, and (almost invariably) a rose-patterned chamber pot. Few seemed sad at leaving their cold, wind-whipped islands...
...putting together her opus she had spent 1,303 hours in reading, 1,380 hours in indexing, and 1,284 hours in writing. She also felt that, in writing a historical novel, "it is a very good thing to have a knowledge of history." Author Winsor also had a sad reflective word on critics : "Reviewers often review the book they wish you'd written, not the one you did write...
...lions with sad-princess eyes go flitting through the gold and violet depths, as light as swallows in a summer sunset; while under a red reef the huge sea elephants loll and preen themselves like odalisques in a sea god's harem; one of the beauties puckers up to kiss the camera, and the theater rocks as if it had been hit (as in fact it has) by a two-ton buss...
Last week Ira Hayes, flabby and sad-eyed at 32, was back on the Gila River Indian Reservation in Arizona, where he was born. He had not had a drink for two weeks, and was working as a cotton picker. His mother and father noticed that he seemed restless, but. Ira assured them that he was not going into Phoenix, not going to take a drink again. But when one of his brothers and a friend came by to invite him to a card and drinking party, Ira's resolution melted away. His mother waited...
...painter. Shahn grew up to startle the art world with a series of watercolors, almost as beautiful as they were bitter, based on the Sacco-Vanzetti case. He became perhaps the best, and most depressing, painter of the Great Depression. Shahn's "havenots" were lean as greyhounds and sad-eyed as spaniels; his "haves" always looked as if they had had too much...