Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since Dr. Ernest L. Wynder began trying to convince the world of the dangers of cancer in cigarette smoking, he has looked as cheerful as a basset hound being dragged through a cactus patch. Last week he looked as sad-eyed as ever, but he had good news for smokers. Cigarettes, he told the American Association for Cancer Research, have been made " less hazard ous" - he would not say "safer" - in the last few years, and they are being made still less hazardous...
...Republican Party after his performance in 1960. If he or Rockefeller had worked just half as hard as the rest of us worked, Richard Nixon would be in the White House today." What did Barry think of Lodge's refusal to come home? "This is a sad commentary on the state of American politics. A Lodge victory in Oregon would mean a victory for Madison Avenue; it would have a decided effect on American politics. Campaigning would become completely Madison Avenue-ized." Said Goldwater with a wan smile: "I'm very interested in a trip to Tahiti...
This nose is a shrine. It starts at the summit of her hive-piled hair and ends where a trombone hits the D below middle C. The face it divides is long and sad, and the look in repose is the essence of hound. She is about as pretty, in short, as Fanny Brice; but as she sings number after number and grows in the mind, she touches the heart with her awkwardness, her lunging humor, and a bravery that is all the more winning because she seems so vulnerable. People start to nudge one another and say, "This girl...
Reason A is Dick McPherson, a 6-2, 215-pound monster who pitches baseballs when he's not playing center for the football team. Harvard's team has some sad memories of McPherson; he beat them 8-1 last year, yielding just three hits in the process. At season's end he owned a 5-3 record and a 2.12 earned-run average...
...Hitler: the Curia would remain silent in exchange for making Rome an open city. "That is a disgrace," wrote Tisserant. "I am afraid history will reproach the Holy See for having followed a policy which was convenient to itself, and for not having done much else. This is extremely sad...