Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Williams is a senior. He will remember this season, his last season, for the rest of his life. Had he been forced to sit out this season, it would have been very sad...
...usual in these sad days, filthy lucre is the mother of innovation. The preponderance of American accents in Parliament is yet another cunning British scheme to milk its antiquity for all that it is worth. Not content with turning the entire country into its meager conception of a tourist's paradise, England has gone it one better and changed its government to suit the times. Penury again is the cause of change...
...those outside the University, Harvard Law School has crossed the line. "It's a joke--that's what people are saying about you here, you know," Macauley said. "It's a fine law school, but it's rather sad. It's both a joke and terribly sad...
Will those sad scenes of 1929, the stuff of flickering newsreels, replay themselves in 1989? Could it possibly happen again in this day and age? Almost no one seemed to think so only a few years ago, when the initial comparisons between the go-go decades of the 1920s and 1980s tended to downplay the possibility that the "Roaring Eighties" might lead to disaster. But now the confidence is not quite so strong. Some economists see a frightening number of current parallels with the 1920s. Moreover, those similarities are compounded by unprecedented new debt burdens and serious questions about...
...Richard Nixon Sequoiadendron giganteum became so gnarled and twisted that it choked itself to death right on the South Lawn of the White House. A sad loss, but Gardener Irvin Williams has his eye on another sequoia to replace it. Thus does the life cycle on the White House grounds go on even as in the political world. The Benjamin Harrison Quercus coccinea dropped a limb over the fence onto Pennsylvania Avenue the other night. Nobody was underneath, thank goodness. But be wary. A 100-year-old scarlet oak has some privileges when it suddenly wearies. Nonetheless, the trunk...