Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Piave front during World War I, has an artificial kneecap, bears scars from a World War II automobile accident, a collapsing ceiling and innumerable other mishaps), was dead. Newspapers all over the world ran scare headlines and obituaries, Havana waiters wept, millions of Hemingway readers expressed shock and sorrow...
From 600 radio stations this week came a new kind of opening announcement. "The power of God," said a voice to a soft organ background, "is present and available today to heal you of sickness, sin, sorrow, and limitation . . . This program ... is another in the series on How Christian Science Heals, produced and transcribed by the Mother Church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts...
...window to wave goodbye to the crowd. El Galleguito angrily grabbed the window and pulled it down, barely missing the President's hastily retracted head. As the train pulled away, astonished spectators could see on the President's face that off-balance look of mingled pain, sorrow, anger and resignation that now and then crosses the countenance of every father...
...glorious old imperialist days, England exported her national sport so fervently that the sun never set on cricket.* The ones who learned cricket best, England discovered to her sorrow, were the sturdy Australians. After England's second loss to the Aussies, the despondent London Sporting Times wrote: "English cricket . . . died at the oval, Aug. 29, 1882 . . . The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia." The Ashes eventually became the invisible symbol of victory in the matches. For the last 20 years, down-under cricketers have held on to the Ashes. Last week long-humiliated England...
...Disquieting Fear. Within an hour after the signing, President Eisenhower went on the air with a message to the nation. "With special feelings of sorrow, and with solemn gratitude," he said, "we think of those who were called upon to lay down their lives in that far-off land to prove once again that only courage and sacrifice can keep freedom alive upon the earth." He warned that the U.S. had "won an armistice on a single battleground, not peace in the world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest. Throughout the coming months, during...