Word: sorrowful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...More in sorrow than in anger, a prominent psychiatrist named Dr. Lawrence S. Kubie last week unraveled the Kinsey Report. Despite his professional courtesy and his careful occasional praise, Dr. Kubie's article, in the current Psychosomatic Medicine, was the most devastating scientific attack on the report...
...third. Israel's President Chaim Weizmann was born in Russia, had served Britain brilliantly as a chemist in World War I, and had lost a son in the R.A.F. in World War II. But his journey would not take him through his second homeland. "To our great sorrow," explained Mrs. Weizmann, "the attitude of Great Britain has prevented us from going to London . . . We don't wish to come to England on sufferance...
...Christian calendar, Palm Sunday is a day on which hope contends with despair. The faithful express their joy in commemoration of Christ's entry into Jerusalem; they remember, in Lenten sorrow, His Crucifixion...
...Sweet 16. Last week, only 16 teams-known by Hoosiers as "the sweet 16"-were left. Then it was their turn to battle it out in the semifinals. Monroeville, accompanied by the prayers of the home folks, went down to Muncie and got smeared, 49 to 38. There was sorrow among Monroeville's 896 citizens. Portland High fared better, getting by Chester Township, a hotbed of basketball on the Eel River in Wabash County, only to be humbled later in the day. In last week's semifinals, all the small-town schools (the smaller the town, the higher...
...swarm to the mines and compounds, homeless and without families. His sister has become a prostitute, his son a thief. There are few kafferboeties, or white men who work for the welfare of the blacks. One of them is killed by a housebreaker, and to his terrible sorrow the old man learns that his son Absalom was the killer. . This situation allows the novelist to dramatize with irony a complex of interracial tensions in which there seems little but heartbreak for the just and disinterested. Although it is as much meditation as fiction in certain parts, and the meditation...