Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Earl Warren spoke more in sorrow than in anger. He took off for the East, still concentrating on being the candidate who is mad at nobody...
...five, the title poem of this book, is mainly a befuddled piece of pseudo-Stoic claptrap, to be read in sorrow by all who admire the author. Its burden is that God and King are gone, even Man is a little shopworn, but the "human perishable heart" remains as the hero of the future, since there...
...world-every corner of it-knew Jews, but the Israelis were not the Jews most of the world knew. Two millenniums of sorrow and insecurity in a hostile world had put their stamp on the character of this people. In Israel, a few years of struggle to build a state, a few months at the center of the world stage, a few weeks of battle had superimposed another, bolder stamp. That the Israelis' Dry had come just after the worst of thousand persecutions, that it had been by those who survived the slaughter of 6,000,000, made...
...torn Yellow River valley, "China's Sorrow" threatened to burst the dikes held by both armies. The alarmed Red radio mixed propaganda with its pleading: "It is impossible to complete dike repair work because of constant Nationalist raids . . . We request Nationalist troops and air forces to cease their obstruction...
...writer is aware, as most of his characters are not, of the depth of mystery that lies behind the sorrow-as behind the pride-of the intellectual...