Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this vast mass of ignorance about people arose the arrogance which led Rumplestiltskin to all his sorrow. For both he and the University entertained theories about who he was and what he might become. And so they both imagined him as somebody he was not, and then tried to reconstruct him in the new image...
Comrades at Law. Their feature stories described "the rich airs and sparkling diamond necklace" of Defendant Reynolds' wife", painted bitter contrasting pictures of the Chinese widow, Mrs. Liu Chi-jan-"pale, weakened with sorrow, weeping bitterly until her eyes were swollen with sorrow." The Army's conduct of the case did little to dispel Chinese suspicions: both defense and prosecuting attorneys had been flown in from Okinawa, where they shared the same office. This was not the first time one had taken one side of the case and the other had been his friendly antagonist. During the trial...
...author constantly advises the elimination of everything relating to past or future. Ambition, for example, is linked to becoming. And becoming "is the continuation of time, or sorrow." Becoming, he claims, does not contain Being, "for Being is always in the present." Ambition of any sort, even of altruistic motivation, is action postponed. "Desire is ever of the future; the desire to become is inaction in the present...
...metal, fragments of Fiberglas insulation, oxygen tanks. Though wreckage had pierced walls and roofs, no one outside the Junior High schoolyard was seriously hurt. From Los Angeles in the wake of the crash came angry demands for federal controls. But in the San Fernando Valley, anger was tempered by sorrow, and death had wiped magic from the air and sparkling sun. Gathering her child to her tightly, a mother said sadly: "Living here will never be the same again. Never...
...choose, I would have doomsday now." When another prince shot and killed the British vice consul in Jiddah because he refused to hand over a visiting English girl, the Old Lion offered the widow his son's life in forfeit (she declined, settled for $70,000 damages). In sorrow and anger, he forthwith banished all liquor from Saudi Arabia. In 1953, the Old Lion died, a stranger in a world he never dreamed of. At 51, Saud became King...