Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...come election time, he drew less than 7 percent of the vote, probably because Anderson, once touted as the candidate with "new politics," a back-to-issues approach that voters really sought, became a sad, fading shadow scuttling behind Reagan and Carter. He came to be perceived as very much the politician concerned about his image, not the intellectual, upfront candidate the press and public had grown to know...
Rosovsky, an expert on the Japanese economy, noted that "in these times of sad economic news, it does one good to hear from the one area where some good is happening," added that he hoped he was wrong in failing to see the use of East Asia as a model for the developing nations of the world...
...SAD IRONY SURROUNDS SUCH ACTS of cruelty: in many instances they are being directed against people who once led lives similar to our own. Our detachment as well as ignorance melts into empathy when people ask: what is a refugee before he or she flees...
...publisher rejected one of her manuscripts. A Very Private Eye, an autobiography drawn from her diaries to be published next spring, gives a livelier picture. A lawyer's daughter from Shropshire, she lived an intense student life at Oxford in the '30s. Her knowledge of the sad imbalances of love came from several unfortunate affairs. Her first book, Some Tame Gazelle, about middle-aged sisters, was written in 1935 when she was 21 (it was revised and published 15 years later). Already certain she would be a writer, she fashioned the story by imagining her sister and herself...
...always sad when a kid commits a crime--it means that something or someone is applying pressure, be it poverty, parents, or peers. At least the town of Brattleboro gave some thought to the question of cause. May be now they'll find some answers...