Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...token, the Mengele hunters and the survivors of the Holocaust, in which some 10 million people were killed, have mixed feelings about the possibility that Mengele has been finally laid to rest. That prospect, says Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, brings "a sad sense of relief." If Mengele is gone, he will never be brought to justice; his crimes will be buried like his victims...
...same sad question haunted all of Urirchar after the night of the raging elements. While the sea crashed over the 20-sq.-mi. island, whose highest point is only 10 ft. above sea level, families were torn asunder. In desperation, people clung to the rafters of the Forestry Department building or to trees or to anything else not swept away by the terrifying storm. "I survived by holding on to a branch," said Akmal Hossain, a 42-year-old farmer. "Everything happened after midnight, and before I could realize the gravity of the situation, water and water engulfed the island...
When she asked the mothers what they wanted their own daughters to do in the future, Rosegrant says the women would say "modeling school and college." However, when prodded further "they would all look sad, sort of sick and then say 'Well she likes babies a lot, she likes babies...she says she wants babies...
...urge the administration to provide answers to these vital questions. Without them, Harvard cannot forthrightly claim that it is following up on last year's promise actively to combat the harassment problem. And without them, Douglas Hibbs's resignation will serve as little more than a sad reminder that Harvard can be a miserable place for women to make their way in the world...
...arms around her and I could feel her body underneath me sobbing and I felt like she was the child. I stopped tormenting her after that. That was the turning point when I knew. I think that made me grow up fast. I knew I could be either sad and weak and not in control or I could just take control and say it's going to get better...