Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these objections are really little more than quibbles. Alastair Sim easily cancels them out, as when he intones with sorrow dripping from his voice after an explosion in the chemistry lab, "Poor little Bessie, I warned her to be more careful with the nitroglycerine." Nothing, not even mediocre sound recording, can spoil the effect of that...
...from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sir Nigel, one of Ike's favorite books. Mamie Eisenhower brought one message, from Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov, to Ike's attention: "I just now learned of your illness and received this news with the deepest feelings of sorrow. With all our hearts my family and I wish you a speedy recovery and long life...
...Giovanni as a red-wigged Donna Elvira, Schwarzkopf first denounced her seducer with flashing temper, then melted into moving sorrow as she realized what sort of fellow the don was. With sure technique, she hushed her eager admirers in the audience until she finished her big Act II aria. As she ended the song, she cupped her hands before her in supplication and got her reward: thunderous applause and cheers during four curtain calls...
...Feverish Age. The abruptness which marked the end of the Renaissance's Golden Age shocked even the men who lived through it. When the art-loving Medici Pope. Leo X, bowed his head in sorrow at Raphael's death on Good Friday, 1520, he was unknowingly mourning the death of Renaissance Man. Within seven years, Rome, the symbol of Europe's stability, lay smoking and sacked by German and Spanish troops...
This terse weekend announcement signaled that President Eisenhower must withdraw presently from the Washington whirlpool, and perhaps from future political battles altogether. We regret that the President, must suffer illness, because of the sorrow surrounding any sickness, and, more important, because the Republican Party needs Eisenhower to fulfill its duties of national leadership. The President's present successor, Richard Nixon, is an obvious reason why this is true...