Word: sorrowed
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...changes but the name remains. When they were in New Orleans, the Utah Jazz had a harmonious name, but when they moved west it would have been sensible to change their name to something locally resonant--perhaps to the Utah Mormon Tabernacle Choir, a uniquely felonious appellation. New Orleans sorrow at the loss of their Jazz has been partially ameliorated by the acquisition of the USFL's Breakers, another team whose name made more sense when it was connected to its original city--at least Boston has a seashore...
...helping your peers deal with tragedy. But if you do not at least make the effort, then Harvard students might as well be strangers who happen to live in the same city, rather than a true community of classmates, trying to support one another, particularly in times of sorrow. Jeff Rosen...
...knew that the finger was on me, I was limed by her and would have to struggle to get myself free. Only the space of one day, morning, noon, night, to bring such change! It was there, the trap I had tried to avoid-and would avoid!-the bitter sorrow of a love that is fruitless, pointless, hopeless, agonizing and ridiculous. Once more, the clown's trousers had fallen down...
Before dinner, Reagan and I spoke mostly about Edgar Bergen. The famous ventriloquist had died, and Reagan had just returned from the funeral. His convivial spirit had been quietened by sorrow. His face was drawn; his thoughts were with his friend; there was a sad smudge of theatrical makeup on the cuff of his shirt, one of the stigmata of the politician in this age of television...
...mind filled with memories of the day on which President Kennedy was assassinated and the sense of shock and sorrow that overcame the nation. Now the terrible blow had fallen again. On arrival at the White House, I learned that all the President's senior aides had rushed to the hospital. "Has the Vice President been informed?" I asked. The answer was no. Bush was airborne, flying from Dallas to Austin. I telephoned him on his plane and recommended he return to Washington at once. To Allen, I suggested that the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General and the director...