Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Misrepresentations. "I shall not campaign, in the usual sense, for the office. In these days of tragic sorrow, I do not consider it fitting. And besides, in these days of global warfare, I shall not be able to find the time. I shall, however, feel free . . . to correct any misrepresentations...
...fugitive from Tsarist Russia, Petrunkevitch was educated in Russia and Germany, married a U.S. girl in 1903, taught briefly at Harvard before he went to Yale. He wrote his first scientific work at about the same time that he published his first book of verse (Songs of Love and Sorrow). His first studies were of beetles and bees, concerning which he made some significant discoveries (e.g., that drones develop from unfertilized eggs). He also made revealing investigations of the digestion of cockroaches. He has written authoritatively on philosophy and the Russian Revolution, has long been president of the Connecticut Academy...
Last week Grandfather Golovaty left his bees to their own hard-working devices, journeyed to town for the ceremony of presentation. To Major Yeremin he imparted some grandfatherly instruction: ". . . revenge my son Stepan, and my cousin Ivan . . . and all the sorrow and suffering which the Hitlerite invaders have caused...
With what exquisite sorrow...
Next day the old man wrapped himself in his shawl, passed through his prison's iron gates. Outside, a cluster of followers cheered him. Wanly he smiled back. He had spent 21 isolated, sorrow-steeped months in the Aga Khan's villa ; there his Boswellian secretary, Mahadev Dezai, and his loyal wife, Kasturbai, had died (TIME, March 6). Now he journeyed to nearby Parnakuti, the rambling, white stone residence of his longtime friend, the wealthy, widowed Lady Vittal das Thackersey...