Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Week after week, in his weekly Uomo Qualunque (TIME, Sept. 24), Editor Giannini proclaims the word with rising fervor. "It is my son's loss [in the war] that makes me hate politicians' interference. From my sorrow was born the idea of Uomo Qualunque. Bereaved fathers will always understand each other if politicians do not interfere." Uomo Qualunque's circulation rose on this rhetoric to 800,000, Italy's highest...
...Tientsin, and Shantung Province were seeing their first "regulars" in eight years. A wave of optimism, in refreshing contrast with the cynicism of the Western World, has been flooding over China, like the Yellow River at crest. But like that mighty, fertilizing stream, it can make for prosperity or sorrow...
...There is a saying about 'putting your own house in order, before the law does it for you with a rough hand.' It is an old, trite saying, but still true, as many a proud industry, from the railroads to the stock exchanges, knows to its. sorrow...
...greatest and most terrible of wars ended, this week, in the echoes of an enormous event?an event so much more enormous that, relative to it, the war itself shrank to minor significance. The knowledge of victory was as charged with sorrow and doubt as with joy and gratitude. More fearful responsibilities, more crucial liabilities rested on the victors even than on the vanquished...
...Japs know Admiral William Frederick Halsey, to their sorrow. They know him as the Annapolis-trained Dead End Kid who calls the Japs monkeys, whose battle cry is "Kill Japs, kill Japs, and then kill more Japs." They also know him as the calculating, chance-taking seaman who coolly gambled on disaster in the Philip pines invasion last fall to send his fleet north and destroy most of the surviving carriers of the Japanese fleet...