Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What's worse, 1946 knows nothing of the University's traditions." The day might even dawn, he thought with sorrow, when a Harvard man might not know who a Yardling was, or what to do when he heard the cry of "Rheinhardt!" echoing through the Yard on a warm spring evening. "I don't suppose," he said, half-aloud, "that this year's Freshmen even know who Join the Orange Man and Bob Lampoon were...
...noblesse oblige. She never blows up. She is fanatically punctual: if her husband is not ready on time, she leaves for rehearsals alone, waits for him at the theater. Life for her is a serious business. Her manager once remarked: "If a person has no suffering or great sorrow, they just don't interest Miss Cornell...
Cutting Connections. Purpose of the operation is to sever most of the nerve connections between the prefrontal lobes and the thalamus. The thalamus is lower, nearer the spinal cord. This part of the brain is widely believed to be the seat of emotions-fear, rage, lust, sorrow, other purely animal instincts. All animals have a thalamus, but the higher animals-above all, man-developed superimposed layers of brain tissue which exercise some control over the thalamus...
...Sorrow for Stalingrad tempered Russia's somber pride in Leningrad. The tsar-made city on the Baltic, entering its second year of siege, presented to Russia and the world an epic of agony and heroism which in its duration and sustained intensity exceeded even the siege of Sevastopol...
...Sweet Sorrow. In South Norwalk, Conn., farewells to soldiers reminded Veteran Benjamin Keeler's friends that they had never given him the farewell dinner they planned in 1917. They mended matters by banqueting...