Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...total already tops 3,000. Tens of thousands of peasants have been forced to flee the countryside and settle in makeshift refugee camps in the larger cities and across the border in Honduras. As Father Manuel Torruella said in his homily at San Salvador Cathedral last Sunday, "It is sad to see our country destroyed. What will be left to a country as poor as ours after this? No matter who wins, what will we have left...
...NOTEBOOK: Yesterday was a sad day for broadcasting, for not only did Walter Cronkite hang up the mike, but Ed Murphy and Jay Weinstein ended their careers as the voices of Harvard basketball. WHRB will not broadcast tonight's game at Brown because of a scheduling conflict with the hockey team...
...assurances of editorial independence, which Mr. Murdoch has given, are very far-reaching, and there is no reason to doubt he will abide by them." In Toronto, Lord Thomson of Fleet was melancholy about giving up the paper, but he professed confidence about the new proprietor: "I feel very sad that we failed to make the papers successful. I know that [Murdoch] has the desire to show the world that he can produce good newspapers as well as sensational ones...
...Little Miss Magic" will bring sad tears to the eyes of those who love Jimmy Buffett for his immaturity. For in this track, it seems as if he has really gone around the grown-up bend. Voicing fatherly endearments to little Savannah Jane (not the sailboat) as well as reflections on his own aging, Buffett appears to have tied up at convention's dock...
...Graduate Opportunites--Blocking Access to Licensed Professions") to its singsong polemical style. Strenio writes in a conversational second-person manner laced heavily with rhetorical devices. ("You've heard of setting the fox to guard the hens?") and breaks frequently into first-person to stress-a point or tell a sad little story about a friend ruined by low scores--sprinkling his pages with "I think" and "It seems to me" in the fashion that English teachers work for years to drill out of expository essays...