Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must not . . . exclude any expedient that may help to mitigate the ruin and disaster that will follow the disappearance of Britain from the East. But at least let us not add-by shameful flight, by a premature, hurried scuttle-at least let us not add to the pangs of sorrow so many of us feel, the taint and sneer of shame...
...Official Christianity, on the other hand, condones, sanctions and glorifies the ways of this world. . . . Christianity has made of injustice, sorrow, suffering, poverty and death, elements of a divine order. In that way it has become a reactionary power...
...Feast of Peace. On the walls of the working-class district beneath the Parthenon, scrawled slogans gave a chronology of Greece's sorrow...
...tiny rivulet of muddy water oozed into a dried-up channel and meandered sluggishly toward Pohai Gulf, some 400 miles to the northeast. The rivulet, a man-made branch of the Yellow River, was the first fruit of the giant flood-control effort to thrust "China's Sorrow" back into its pre-1938 bed. In Shanghai, UNRRA Engineer Oliver J. Todd, director of the project (TIME, June 17), contemplated news of the trickle with mixed emotions. "Todd Almighty" knew that this was no dream come true; in fact, a nightmare was just beginning...
...enough rock-fill into the new dikes to hold the diverted river's flow. If work stopped, however, Todd's uncompleted dikes might be washed out in the June floods. UNRRA wrung its hands and wondered which was worse: to risk disastrous floods by "China's Sorrow" or to risk hurting the Communist military position and thus sully UNRRA's spotless record of neutrality...