Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese columns rumbled from their village bases, snaked westward across the knee-high wheat of Honan. Overhead, their aircraft roared on their way to bomb Chinese towns strung out along the Hwang Ho, the River of Sorrow...
...each other; an urgent personal desire for retaliation; bitterness because they had given their all and reaped this, while some of their more cunning but less conscientious brethren at home were giving nothing and reaping all; horror because of the added indignities they had suffered even after death; sorrow for their parents, for their girls, and for the many people who must grieve and forget as best they...
Eddie Rickenbacker, World War I ace and, on occasion, envoy extraordinary for Secretary of War Stimson: "Sorrow will come to a million American homes...
...Hamburger Fremdenblatt, which in a Christmas editorial exhorted bombed-out Germans to forget their "sorrow over the loss of goods and chattels," by meditating upon "indestructible things," suggested that religion "has again become modern...
Confucius' discovery that music is an infallible indication of the state of a country's moral and political health -"when the heart's chord of sorrow is touched, the sounds produced are sombre and forlorn"-has carried its ever-new message across the centuries to the turbulent days of the Horst Wessel song...