Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reservation conveys a loaded meaning for Native Americans Gawboy says that shortly after his birth his family moved off Boise Fort Reservation. Minn, "Anything that kept me off the reservation was good," he says. Roubideaux says that the horrible conditions on reservations are shocking and sad. The poor economy, the alcoholism, the heavy polities between Indians and whites, the unfair legal sentences, the police treatment, she says, make it unbelievable for some one who has not seen it. "There is such a sense of loss of culture," she adds. "It's difficult to keep tradition when it means being...
...first water this child has had for a long, long time," says the 60-year-old man. In the past four weeks, Yussuf, known as Jenaza-atabi (Cleaner of the dead), has washed 400 bodies, and, he says, "the numbers keep going up." After he has finished his sad task, Yussuf lifts up the wasted corpse and lays it on a bed of fresh eucalyptus leaves. Then Sheik Ali Hassan says last rites and prays for the departed soul...
...years ago, Louis refereed a Joe Frazier-Jerry Quarry bout at the Garden, his last workday there, and seeing Byarm brought back the dull striped shirt he wore and the sad lost look of him. Holyfield punched past the bell twice-incredible-to rumbling boos. "I was in the groove of punches," he said later. "I didn't hear the bell." Byarm's lip was frayed, but the Brown Bomber had signed to do six rounds and did the six, winning one of them, maybe two. "I'll be back in the gym Monday," he said...
...chaos and carnage that had swept through more than 80 cities. In a camp set up in the Gandhi Memorial Higher School in Delhi, one Sikh survivor after another described how friends and loved ones had been murdered. "My three sons were burned alive," quietly began Amrik Singh, a sad-eyed man whose gray beard had been forcibly shaved to a silver stubble by a mob wielding knives. "They came to my house. They dragged my sons out. They put petrol on them and set them on fire." Near by, Purani Kaur, 60, leaned against a wall in the dusty...
...crime," the trial prosecutor asked, "the crime of someone who does not know what he is doing and who is out of control, or is it the crime of someone who has an evil, twisted and perverted mind?" The difference between being sick and depressed, psychotic and merely "sad at Christmas," underscored the trial debate. While the prosecution emphasized Hinckley's act, the defense attempted to show that the illogical, disjointed association between Hinckley's violence and his fantasy world was sign of process schizophrenia...