Word: sorriest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carry, was estimated at $400 million, a figure that includes the farms, businesses and personal possessions they were forced to leave behind. After the war, this loss was settled at approximately 10? on the dollar. In retrospect, the story of the relocation camps adds up to one of the sorriest chapters in U.S. history, one that is only somewhat ameliorated by the fact that the internees were treated decently in the centers. It is a story that bears retelling, but Bosworth is the wrong man to do it. His angry account lacks not only literary grace but balance...
What Britain has, in fact, is the sorriest secret agent who ever peered through a potted palm. Operation Bandylegs is conceived and carried out by Stanley Farquhar (Lionel Jeffries), an insuperably respectable old bureaucrock with a brain about as subtle as a Mickey Mouse watch, less hair on his head than Sean Connery has in his left nostril, and a blithe belief that some fine day, if he faithfully munches his cornflakes and says sir to his superiors, he will become the sort of ice-cold secret operative who has vodka in his veins and comes out of his frightful...
Some of the best of people seem to lead the sorriest of lives; but failure can be a possible preface to maturity. This is the theme developed with witty grace in these three long short stories...
Since the election, the Republican National Committee has officially pinpointed Philadelphia as one of the sorriest examples of the G.O.P.'s big-city performance. So has former Temple University Chancellor Robert L. Johnson, the G.O.P. National Committeeman for Pennsylvania. Said Johnson recently, citing Philadelphia as his prime example: "At best, big-city Republican leaders are lazy and inept, presiding over fragmented organizations, conducting lackluster campaigns...
...MARK. The sorriest of subjects -the hero is queer for little girls-is investigated with rare skill by Scenarists Sidney Buchman and Stanley Mann. The result is an earnest, valuable and even beautiful film...