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Word: sadnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...house. Later, FBI Director Webster called the Senator to say he had performed "beautifully" on the FBI'S video tape. Commented Pressler: "I find it somewhat repulsive that I'm on tape, but now I'm called a hero. It's a sad state of affairs when it's heroic to turn down a potential bribery situation." The fallout from Abscam was indeed a serious matter. Along with the further erosion of public confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The FBI Stings Congress | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

Mayor Jane M. Byrne called yesterday "a sad and sick day" for the city, as the walkout left fire protection for 3.5 million people up to a few non-strikers, supervisory personnel, Fire Academy cadets and other city workers, with help from suburban fire departments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chicago Firemen Strike For the First Time Ever | 2/15/1980 | See Source »

...Placid (pop. 3,300) played host to the first Olympic Games ever held on American soil. Nearly five decades later, the same village, now even smaller (pop. 2,997), is bracing for what could prove to be, if events take the darkest of turns, the final true Olympics. The sad truth is that the political pressures that have always borne so heavily on the Olympic Games today threaten to open an irreparable schism in world sport (see ESSAY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold Rush at Lake Placid | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...Nora, is a bearer of upside-down cake and earthy common sense. They are bound together by unutterable aloneness, and they summon up the apparitions with a brief incantation about eternally unresting souls in order to have someone further to talk to. But after the apparitions have told their sad stories, the widows are chilled through their bones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Apparitions and Cakewalkers | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

...sad chronicle of surprises and miscalculations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Who Lost Afghanistan? | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

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