Word: sob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lady of the Camellias. What prompted Franco Zeffirelli to "devise, design and direct" this revival of the dusty Dumas fils sob opera is a question the ancients would have put to Delphi. The question on opening night was whether the dry eyes outnumbered the open ones...
...Pasadena's pet cemetery, mourning "mothers" sob as tiny coffins are lowered, a fat man in a sports shirt crosses himself over a grave, and a French poodle comments succinctly on the scene by relieving himself on a headstone marked "Judy Baby-our darling girl...
Widow's Sob. Not a Cossack but a sugar refinery worker, Roman Popovich, 57, wept with joy outside his home in the Ukraine in front of the photographers who gathered to catch his reaction at the news of his son's landing. In the Chuvash Republic, Anna Nikolayev, 62, a widowed peasant woman, tugged at her handkerchief and sobbed. Newspapers all over the world carried the photos...
...girls sob like slow snows...
...convinced that the people's taste is as low as some of you assume." Broadcasters, said Minow, ought to follow the example of the newspaper publishers, whose own polls consistently show that the two most popular items in the papers are the comics and the sob sisters. "But the news is still on the front pages of all newspapers, the editorials are not replaced by more comics, the newspapers have not become one long collection of advice to the lovelorn...