Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cope constantly with the ignorance and prejudice, of some of our compatriots with respect to Spain's history, her customs and her prospects. There is no country geographically so near to the U.S. around which so much legend and so many myths have clustered. Much of this rather sad misunderstanding was started at the time of the Spanish Civil War and during World War II. Certainly it is high time that the massive changes in Spain should receive appropriate recognition...
...little lives under the blistering sun, supposedly caring deeply about all sorts of things which can be considered only comic when compared to the course of humanity itself, or the universe. Every once in a while the narrator steps back and comments on how they are all comedians, as sad and funny as clowns on a stage. The real irony is that the narrator never has to step back and comments on how they are all comedians, as sad and funny as clowns on a stage. The real irony is that the narrator never has to step back; these people...
...openly sought imprisonment. "He wanted to go to jail," A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany noted with a wry jab, "and I wouldn't do anything to take away from his happiness." At week's end Quill was released from Bellevue Hospital and entered a private hospital, a sad and feckless parody of the youth who fought in the Irish rebellion. Worse still, he demonstrated for all to see the sad internal state of his union (no strike benefits, modest treasury) and showed how unconcerned its members were for the lives and welfare of some...
...Sad Journey. The strain of the talks had told on Shastri. He looked weary and fatigued after signing the agreement. That night, going to bed at midnight, he hoped for a good sleep. But scarcely an hour later he staggered into the hallway of his villa, clutching his chest. Guards summoned his doctor, who immediately injected a stimulant. A team of Russian physicians rushed to his bedside, shot adrenalin directly into the heart. But nothing helped. At 61, Shastri was dead of a heart attack, his third in six years...
Oblivious to Need. Some sad statistics tell the need: New Jersey has the eighth highest per capita income in the U.S.; yet it ranks 48th in its per capita support of higher education, ahead of only Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. While most states send only about 20% of their students to colleges in other states, New Jersey exports 55% of its high school graduates-leading educators to dub New Jersey "The Cuckoo State," after the bird that plants its eggs in other nests to hatch...