Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...open up one's life to this power "make personal salvation a kind of do-it-yourself project," it misses the very essence of my preaching . . . The statement that I "see in Christianity not so much redemption by suffering as an easy way to rise above sorrow" is a flippant distortion by contrast, where there is no inherent contradiction...
...China acted sorry to have Nehru leave. "No sorrow as painful as that of parting," said Mao. Twenty thousand regimented schoolchildren cried: "Chinese and Indians are brothers, brothers!" Yet for Red China, the Peking conference had turned out to be an unexpected failure. Quoting eagerly from Nehru's own anti-Western statements, the Communists had tried to lure Nehru into an anti-Western collective security pact; Nehru had proved "not too enthusiastic." The conference, trumpeted in advance as a milestone of history, produced no final communique and only one scrap of agreement: Red China could run an airline into...
...Adhemar learned to his sorrow last week, he wildly underestimated Jânio's appeal to the discontented. Now that the appeal has been proved in a crucial statewide election, a lot of Brazilians-some with hope and some with fear-think that Jânio, rather than Adhemar, is São Paulo's likeliest future candidate for President...
...Peale's once calculated that the U.S. suffers from 7.5 billion headaches a year, and the pastor's great message is that religion can cure almost all of them. He sees in Christianity not so much redemption by suffering as an easy way to "rise above sorrow...
Such Sweet Sorrow. In Gallup, N. Mex., Fireman Paul Peck asked the town council to pay him for the ten days' work he did after he was fired, explained that he was hard of hearing and did not understand he had been...