Word: sorrowful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Vice President). He cut his private birthday cake, bearing just 21 candles, tuned in on an hour-long nation-wide broadcast to hear welders sizzling in factories, riveters clattering, presses crunching, a chorus singing Yellow Rose of Texas. Said he into the microphone himself: "In the midst of sorrow, suffering . . . and death . . . the day itself and the evening have brought with them a great reassurance. ... I am very sure that this day has not been wasted-that it has been a useful day. For all that you have done, I am very grateful...
Bolivar started for the coast and exile. His letters became Timon-like. "I am resolved," he wrote before starting, "to die an exile in want and sorrow." He was ill and traveled slowly. He began to head his letters "from a deathbed, that is, a place of prophecy." He prophesied that if Latin Americans could not unite, they would "relapse into little tyrannies of all colors and races" until "devoured by all crimes and destroyed by chaos, we shall be reconquered by Europe." He did not think his warnings would do much good. "There have been three great fools...
...ostracized from the Mennonite Church for bearing him two children out of wedlock, Rembrandt moved to dingy quarters over a ghetto junk shop, and continued to paint more intensely than ever. When his son, whom he idolized, died in 1668, aged but upright Painter Rembrandt stumped in proud sorrow to the graveyard, dressed in his best: a moth-eaten, fur-lined overcoat spattered with paint...
...half scared enough. Hitler sounds crazy and dangerous, but in Robin's experience no soup is ever eaten as hot as it is cooked. What with his son Hansi a Communist, and his son Freddi a Social Democrat, the family is splitting up badly, to his sorrow; but he has his crafty reasons to feel that he has protectors among the Nazis, and in all their conflicting camps. At length, of course, he is framed, robbed, imprisoned. He and other Jews are stuffed with strong purgatives, stripped, and forced to flog each other's buttocks. Johannes Robin...
...heroism can be compared, the most illustrious of America's first heroes was Captain Colin Purdie Kelly Jr. His citation was recorded in a single pregnant sentence of a communiqué issued by General Douglas MacArthur: "General MacArthur announced with great sorrow the death of Captain Colin P. Kelly Jr.. who so distinguished himself by scoring three direct hits on the Japanese capital battleship Haruna, leaving her in flames and in distress...