Word: sorrowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Makati debacle was only a taste of what was to come. The next day, Filipinos from all walks of life poured into the Post Office Square after gathering in four Roman Catholic churches. In defiance of the regime, organizers billed it as a Day of National Sorrow in Aquino's memory. Standing under a Philippine flag at half-mast, representatives of the moderate opposition, the church, labor unions and Aquino's family demanded Marcos' resignation. Declared Jose Diokno, a former Senator and human rights leader who was imprisoned with Aquino in the 1970s: "This day marks...
...chronicle of the sorrow and the pity of Viet...
...Boston affiliate, WGBH, in conjunction with Britain's Central Independent Television and France's Antenne 2. Assembled by a multinational team that focused on America but gained access to Communist Viet Nam, the 13-part report is fair and generally balanced. It speaks more in sorrow than in anger, without accusations or the smug wisdom of hindsight and with sensitivity to the tragedy of what started as a noble cause...
...Kimpo Airport in Seoul, friends and families awaiting Flight 007 endured a roller-coaster of worry, falsely raised joy and final sorrow. They waited for five agonizing hours for some word of the missing plane's fate. Rumors filled the vacuum. The 747 had been hijacked. No, it had been forced to land on Soviet soil. Then official confirmation. A KAL spokesman said on the p.a. system that the airliner was safely down on Sakhalin. Everyone should leave telephone numbers and await word on the reunion. Cheers filled the terminal. Another 13 hours passed before the reality came from...
Brown also had a fair portion of sorrow at the center of all this success. In 1976 his first wife, Phyllis, committed suicide, 21½ years after the birth of their son Ethan. He drew from this experience a formidable album, The Pretender, in which he fused personal tragedy with a more general portrait of a society shut off against itself: "Oh God this is some shape I'm in/ When the only thing that makes me cry/ Is the kindness in my baby...