Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...justified in laying down prematurely the heavy responsibilities of the presidency of Harvard only if in so doing he accepts an equally challenging task of prime significance. My realization of the magnitude and complexities of the problems that lie ahead in my new position is mingled with my deep sorrow in parting from my many friends here in Cambridge and in educational work throughout the United States...
...resignation seem, upon reflection, an inadequate statement of our feelings. We did not want to overemphasize his importance as president of Harvard lest we seem to deplore his decision to resign. But in attempting to avoid that pitfall, we fear that we did not sufficiently emphasize our deep sorrow and regret at his retirement...
Under the headline URUGUAYAN GOLD MEANT MORE TO HUGO DEL CARRIL THAN THE SORROW OF HIS PEOPLE, the scurrilous piece ironically invoked the memory of his patroness Evita to attack him: "Here in Buenos Aires the people trem bling with cold stood in endless columns in the streets, silently paying tribute to their departed benefactress. There in Montevideo Hugo del Carril expressed his indifference to the national pain and man ifested the crudest monetary greed by continuing to sing from July 27 to Au gust 8 ..." Hushing the Truck. The story was not true: Del Carril had returned to Buenos...
Animals seem to have been favored in TIME'S early years. The first was a baby basset hound (Feb. 27, 1928). Said the story: "In the ringed and shadowy eyes of animals, more clearly than in the secretive countenance of man, is expressed the mystery, the dark sorrow of existence. Of all beasts, dogs are perhaps the most melancholy in their looks; of all dogs, the slouching basset hound is the most sad. Of all basset hounds, none is more woebegone, more tragic than a certain basset hound puppy. Last week he sat nuzzling his weak chin into...
...live torpedo. "King wished to relieve the commanding officer of the destroyer at once," writes King, "but, to his great amazement, the President told him to forget it. Consequently, no steps were taken." In King's report of Roosevelt's death, there is no word of sorrow or compassion. He complains: "There was such a press of mourners that the Joint Chiefs could not even see the grave...