Word: sorrowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sorrow and Work. The task of moving was complicated. Secretaries toiled amid mountains of correspondence-25,000 letters alone had poured in by midweek. Eleanor Roosevelt spent hours answering personal notes, hours more telephoning friends and relatives who were to receive mementos from her husband's possessions. Those who saw her thought her hair looked greyer; her eyes were tired and she was pale, but she worked on without pause. Toward the end of the week, she invited newspaperwomen to pay her a last visit at the White House...
...What's worse, 1946 knows nothing of the University's traditions." The day might even dawn, he thought with sorrow, when a Harvard man might not know who a Yardling was, or what to do when he heard the cry of "Rheinhardt!" echoing through the Yard on a warm spring evening. "I don't suppose," he said, half-aloud, "that this year's Freshmen even know who John the Orange Man and Bob Lampoon were...
...Stalin and then drove over to Spasso House to voice his condolences. Behind the Kremlin's pink walls lights burned late and long, as Franklin Roosevelt's host at Yalta wrote messages to Franklin Roosevelt's widow and to his successor: "My sympathy in your great sorrow. . . . The Soviet people highly value . . . the leader in the cause of insuring the security of the whole world...
...Chungking. Dawn poked through the chill Yangtze mist. Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, ever an early riser, was at breakfast when an aide brought him the news. He left his food untasted, withdrew for meditation. Hours later he sent his thoughts to Mrs. Roosevelt: "I am deeply grieved. . . . The profound sorrow of the Chinese people . . . the deep sense of gratitude they bear for him. . . . His name will be a beacon of light to humanity...
...squares to celebrate their new pact with Russia. The news from America smothered every jollity. Marshal Tito's Government decreed a four-day closing of theaters, cinemas, concerts. It banned music and dancing in restaurants. Hour after hour people called at the U.S. Embassy to voice their sorrow: "We have lost our best friend...