Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washed marvellously with sorrow, swift to mirth...
...save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind...
...Queen's Lover. It was the beginning of the most colorful period of Sickles' astonishing life. His wife, who had slowly died of shame, sorrow and tuberculosis, was carried to her grave by four embarrassed major generals. Sickles arrived in Madrid a free, amorous, impetuous man. His government hoped he could persuade impoverished Spain to sell Cuba to the United States-a deal that could be put through only by a stable, efficient Spanish government. To get advice, Sickles promptly visited Spain's recently deposed Queen Isabella, whose son, Alfonso, aspired to the shaky throne...
...Brussels the escape of King Leopold III from the Nazis caused neither joy nor sorrow, but considerable embarrassment. The Socialist Party demanded that the King stay out of Belgium. The Catholic Party declared that if Leopold was kept out it would leave the Cabinet, in which it holds the balance of power...
Quiet, greying President Sergio Osmeña went back to his liberated homeland with a burden of personal sorrow-war had brought death to three of his eight sons.* Last week, in Washington, he publicly acknowledged an even deeper personal tragedy. Two of his sons are in Manila's Bilibid Prison, charged with collaborating with the Japanese...