Word: sorrowed
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...fight must take advantage of unpredictable changes in the balance of national interests. My enemy's friend one day is my enemy's enemy the next?and that opens the door to an opportunistic friendship or alliance. The problem is that such overnight love affairs can lead to big sorrow in the future...
...democracy embodies and an unflinching determination to defend those ideals through whatever means are most effective. If diplomacy fails—if the call to arms proves inescapable and we must kill to make the world free—patriotism does not prevent us from hanging our heads in sorrow. But it does forbid us from wringing our hands and walking away. And I think all those war-crazed lunatics who, like me, have lined up behind a president supposedly hell-bent on inflicting Mosaic revenge (lunatics like Al Gore ’69, Tom Daschle, and Dick Gephardt...
...Balkans and Africa. Yet, where has been our fundamental love, not for principle, but for humanity itself? Shouldn’t that love stir us in times like these, softening our hearts of their outrage and disgust, so that we may know the depths of our shared sorrow...
...They momentarily straightened their shoulders, slumped from two weeks of stress and sorrow, for the Administrator's talk. "I just came to thank you," said Garvey, who is known for being meticulously prepared for official appearances. She is the public face of the FAA. Today was no different - despite 20 hour days, Garvey was sharply dressed in a pinstripe suit and her makeup in order, and she had already been smoothly meeting and greeting people in Dulles Airport for two hours. Then, she stumbled. "You are heroes in our minds," she gamely tried continuing, looking directly at a small group...
...people" or TV hosts who talk to the "other side" suggested that death was not to be seen as real. If one doubted its reality before last week, that is unlikely to happen again. Which brings us to the more amorphous zones of reality, such as grief and common sorrow. When the white dust settles, and the bereaved are alone in their houses, there will be nothing but grief around them, and nothing is more real than that. In short, people may at last be ready to say what they wholeheartedly believe. The kindness of people toward others in distress...