Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Churchill began to drink more heavily than ever. "I eats well and sleeps well and drinks well," he admitted jokingly in 1953, "but when I get alongside any business I go all of a tremble. I could do without smoking, but not without my liquor; that would be a sad impoverishment. It is extraordinary between night and morning that I should go like this-a bundle of old rags. I am a hulk-only breathing and excreting...
Harvard played poorly. It was an simple as that. The Crimson swept all the top individual places last year and finished far in front in the team standings, but this year it was a sad story...
Only one Harvard runner got as far as third base, and that was a sad story in itself. In the fifth, Bob Welz singled, and went all the way to third when B.C. bungled a pickoff attempt. Coach Norm Shepard called for a suicide squeeze, but Joe O'Donnell missed the ball completely and Welz, halfway down the line, found out what they mean by suicide...
...tenor and a backing of RCA trumpets, or fiddle and humming voices, he croons away. For the most part, the ballads are banal and ridden with sentimentality ("Here's the mail that came today/ His silver wings and green beret; Come all ye young maidens, and hear my sad tale/ 'Bout a brave young trooper whose 'chute did fail"). If Viet Nam has produced a true war poet, he is no doubt too busy fighting to write...
...icons of fashionable corruption that Italian moviemakers love to hate. The rest of the movie is so elliptical that Giovanna's "tragic death," presumably by suicide, is never explained, and cues the physicist to recall more of her unhappy history in flashbacks pressed from a charred diary. Sad to say, the dead wife's darker secrets turn out to be less interesting, after all, than some of the projects under...