Word: sorrower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning the hunters fled with their captive. All at once, at the edge of a forest, "I stood beside a dark grey rock, twelve feet high." It was the mother. "Her eyes were uncanny, fixed and empty." Oberjohann judged that she "had actually been driven mad by her boundless sorrow at losing her child. I prodded her trunk lightly with my bamboo staff." Dully, she moved away. Next night she destroyed a native village, but Oberjohann never saw her again...
...book. He was unable to see people except in relation to himself or his ideas. In his volumes of autobiography, Persons and Places, on the other hand, which describe the spiritual history of his wandering, split-up family, the life in Avila at the turn of the century where sorrow, rigid custom and a melancholy religion absolutely ruled the population, and the strange contrasts offered by the earnest Boston of William James and the raffish England of Lord John Russell-in things like these Santayana is a master...
...executives have already learned, to their great sorrow, there is no room left at the top of Montgomery Ward & Co. for anyone except highhanded Chairman Sewell Avery, 78. Last week two more Ward vice presidents resigned. They were Roy L. Gebert, top boss of Ward's 605 retail stores, and Herbert Riegelman, the third chief of the Manhattan office to leave since 1950. Said Gebert, a 25-year veteran whom Avery promoted only last September: "Everybody has differences with Mr. Avery . . . No man could continue on the job and keep his self-respect...
...north, at the Baltic Sea, an old German stood in sorrow, watching the waves curling up the gritty beach at the seaside town of Travemünde. The waves split on a two-foot iron stake threaded with barbed wire. "The Communists," he said, "are not content with splitting our country. They are even splitting...
...sorrow, little sorrow, Sorrow in my heart Running through my veins With the force of a cyclone...