Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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China's Sorrow. Todd had spent 26 of his 65 years studying, scheming, writing about the Yellow River. He knew the river's history: it had brought rich loam soil down from the Mongolian mountains to form the fertile flat Shantung peninsula; silt deposited in the river bottom raised the surface level along half its 2,500 mile course, until its banks could not contain it. Not even Oliver Todd knew how many humans the Yellow River, China's Sorrow, had killed...
...over Britain, gratitude for Churchill's wartime services had become tinged with impatience. With more sorrow than anger, newspapers began to suggest that it was about time for him to retire. Last week, the News Chronicle advised him to withdraw to his study and write a chronicle of World War II, instead of wasting his eloquence on parliamentary name calling-like "a great poet spending his time writing Christmas cracker mottoes...
Horned Pigeon, his second book, explains why he was unhappy and what he did during the first years of the war. The sorrow, as revealed in a tasteless postscript: his wife no longer loved him. The rest of the book is as remarkable in its way as Waiting in the Night. It gives a vivid, highly individual, often humorous picture of life as a prisoner...
...play he is. Two conditions in his becoming human--one providing that he never enter any church of God and the other threatening to make him a witch again if Barbara Allen isn't faithful for a full year--make his sorrow, Barbara's death, and the story of "Dark of the Moon." Throughout this story, at the wedding, in the woods when the witch-girls display excellent reasons for the boy's return to the moon-and-eagle life, in the Allen cabin, and above all at the revival in the church when Barbara is accused of marrying...
That was what John L. Lewis said a fortnight ago. He did not say it in sorrow or lamentation. He said it coldly-so coldly as General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz had warned Germany of what the Allied Air Forces would do to the German economy and people...