Word: sorrier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vigor and achievement" after his five years in office. He promised better times to come and compared the Tories to poor-mouthing "Victorian undertakers welcoming a wet winter and the promise of a full churchyard." Labor delegates, who have sat on their hands after some of Harold's sorrier speeches, gave him a two-minute standing ovation, and even the independent Times of London acknowledged his speech as "one of the best in recent years by any party leader...
Love & Death. Marlene may have been carried away. The poems are the usual Hemingway blending of love and death. While Papa was sorry to be absent from Mary, he was even sorrier, it appears, to miss the raptures of combat. Love gets lost in the shuffle...
...Proverb. Behind Jamaica's pomp lay some sorrier economic circumstances. Despite its fairly high-for the Caribbean-per capita income of $359, the country has a pressing want list for low-cost housing, sanitation and water systems, hospitals and roads. All through the week's celebrations, Jamaica's Premier, craggy-faced, white-haired Sir Alexander Bustamante, courted Johnson with extravagant words and gracious gestures, talked endlessly of U.S.-Jamaican solidarity, even offered to let the U.S. set up military bases on the island "when and if it pleases." British and U.S. aid programs are already...