Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's varsity fencers perpetuated a sad old tradition Saturday, insuring themselves a 12th consecutive second division finish in the Ivy League with a 15-12 loss to Princeton...
...bafflingly Mexican. He was nursed by his mother, but a foundling foster brother got most of the milk. It was the same with his first crime-robbing the church poor box. A confederate got the pesos and Pito got the penance. "My life," he says, "is a sad one, like that of all cheats. But I have seen people laugh so often at my sorrow that I have ended up laughing at it myself...
Working behind his eyes, miitgating the sad reports they send, is a mind with surprises, teeming with words that can trick experience out of the troubles it has in store. In "Success Comes to Cow Creek," a poem much concerned with suicide, the poet's friend Gerald approaches and he thinks...
...praise for the astronauts' tenacity, gallantry and courage. On television, their ardent patriotism was spoken of in a seemingly apologetic manner. In this day and age, there aren't enough heroes to emulate, and when someone has to apologize for patriotism, then our country is in a sad state of affairs...
...common ancestor of both man and the apes-a creature he believes may have lived some 40 million years ago, in the Oligocene epoch. Yale Paleontologist Elwyn Simons is working in Egypt's Fayum province, Leakey notes, an area rich in material from the Oligocene. His somewhat sad prediction: "He will be the man who gets the common link...