Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country's present misery and sorrow, Guy believes that it has one advantage over other democracies, the advantage of looking the truth squarely in the face. To win a war a nation must exert every possible effort and sacrifice to reach its goal. For seven consecutive years, Guy noted, Hitler has been pushing his people to the utmost in every field of work. Any country which expects to overcome that force must sacrifice everything to achieve that...
...this curious disorder, Dr. Cleckley has coined a fancy name: semantic dementia-meaning inability to grasp the ordinary meaning of life as lived by human beings. It is as though, behind the mask of sanity, the emotional mechanism had collapsed, leaving these semi-suicides incapable of love, joy, sorrow, aspiration, regret. When examined in hospitals, they are often alert, bright, cheerful, amiable, sometimes haughty and aloof; but they usually think very highly of themselves, are always wholly callous to the distress they cause others. To the knowing psychiatrist, their eloquent admissions of error and promises to reform are catchwords which...
Also a part of end-of-the-term gayety was a dinner at Eliot House last Thursday night at which the Elephants gorged themselves amid a barrage of after-dinner speeches. Master of ceremonies Merriman expressed the House's sorrow over losing Professor Potter and George S. Pettee, who end their stay in Eliot this year. A prominent guest speaker was Major James Casey, Australian minister to the United States...
...congratulations to TIME for its splendid, superb "Slaughter on Fifth Avenue" (Jan. 27). Thoroughly complete, delicately descriptive of a terrible tragedy, "tops" in word phrasing, it is a perfect portrayal of a singular sorrow in a warped world...
...shall be much obliged if you will allow me space in your paper to express my feelings of sorrow on the passing of my friend, Max Keezer. Such sorrow is not peculiar to me, but is general among large sections of Harvard men within and outside the University community, since Mr. Keezer's genial personality, sympathetic interest in the problems of undergraduates, and willingness to aid needy students, endeared him to thousands...