Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This was not a race riot. There was no conflict between groups of our citizens. What happened was the thoughtless, criminal acts of hoodlums, reckless, irresponsible people. Shame has come to our city, and sorrow...
...Generalissimo, as for all his countrymen, it was an hour of deep sorrow. Tzu-ch'ao* was both a scholar and an artist. To his people he personified the Chinese proverb: "Great Wisdom Looks Like Stupidity." He was born in a middle-class family at Foochow in 1862. American missionaries were his first teachers. Later, at a private college, Lin Sen acquired an old-fashioned Chinese education. Later still he went to Hawaii, then to the U.S. He was living in a single barren room in San Francisco when he joined the Kuomintang, then a secret society. When...
...Singapore!' Comrades, let your cry be 'On to Delhi!'" Noting that India lacks an army of her own, Bose added: "George Washington had an army when he won freedom. Garibaldi had an army when he liberated Italy. Follow me, in darkness and in sunshine, in sorrow and in joy. ... I shall lead you to victory and freedom...
...Yuan, high-minded poet and statesman of Chu, the feudal state that covered much of central China some 2,200 years ago. Ch'ii sought vainly to ferret corruption from his government, was slandered and exiled. Heartbroken, he composed his famed poem Li Sao (Dissipation of Sorrow), then on the fifth day of the fifth moon drowned himself in the Mi-Lo River. Legend relates that kind fishermen tried to recover his body, thereby began the custom of the dragon-boat races. But in Chungking last week the festival's origin was less in mind than the chance...
Said Lord Halifax: "Small wonder if men & women everywhere are unsatisfied and ill at ease, since in their hour of greatest need they have lost that which was indeed their birthright - the knowledge of how to pray. Yet, amid all the sorrow and darkness . . . there is consolation. The example alone of heroism . . . as it appears in thousands of lives . . . [shows] that man has renounced the philosophy which paralyzed so much literature and art in the prewar world. Truly, as day by day we see acts of willing self-sacrifice . . . we can . . . turn with firm confidence from the temporary triumphs...