Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cotton whose endless rows converged sometimes on a solitary cabin, vast swamps reptilian and furtive-a land alive with all the elements of lonely beauty, except compassion. In this deep night of land and man, the singers saw visions; grief, like a tuning fork, gave the tone, and the Sorrow Songs were uttered...
...Stern Brigitte cannot abide love in others. When a poor schoolmaster and a plain little seamstress wish to marry, she does her best to prevent it-then watches their poverty and sorrow with pretended concern but real satisfaction...
...little the average football fan knows about the intricacies of the sport was never more aptly demonstrated than in the final seconds of the game, when Vince Moravec intercepted a Princeton pass in the Harvard end zone. The Crimson stands were hushed in sorrow, thinking the Tigers had scored a safety, and even some of the players were mystified when referee Albie Booth ruled it a touchback and awarded the Varsity a first down on its 20-yard line...
...Answers. When Woodrow Wilson had thus frankly asked for a Democratic Congress in 1918 it was bad politics-as Wilson found out to his sorrow. Political observers today thought Harry Truman was in such bad political shape that his appeal would make little difference. At any rate, he got a quick, political answer from Carroll Reece: "I am inclined to agree with Mr. Truman's statement . . . at least to the extent that the country does face a grave emergency, which emergency is the Truman Administration...
...Joel Stebbins and A. E. Whitford, of the University of Wisconsin, cast an infra-red ray of hope on astronomy's bitterest sorrow : the invisibility of the Milky Way's nucleus. Even with small telescopes, astronomers can study the galaxies, gigantic clouds of stars which float far off in space. At their centers most galaxies have tight star clusters which may contain much of their mass. These nuclei facinate astronomers, for within them, they suspect, are conditions which exist nowhere else in the universe...