Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...times on the verge of tears, suddenly switches to a hardly repressed gust of defiant laughter. What the words do not say she suggests with a sway of her body, a flutter of her fan, a twirl of her floor-brushing skirts. Her biggest hit: Pena Penita (Little Sorrow...
...symbol, the death of King George is a cause for sorrow. As an occasion for the British to demonstrate their solidarity in mourning, it will bring a renewal of faith to a people who can hardly see beyond austerity, the dollar gap, and shrunken prestige. And, although an analogy is hardly in order, Britons will no doubt recall that under two earlier Queens, England reached unparalled levels of glory and success. Stranger things have occurred, and a symbol can sometimes do extraordinary things...
...University community yesterday shared the world's sorrow at hearing the news of the death of 56-year-old King George VI of England...
...always impeccable uniform. It represented his only son, Bernard, killed in action in Indo-China just 15 weeks before. Close friends felt that General De Lattre never fully recovered from the shock of that loss, but to one he wrote soon afterward: "My pride is greater than my sorrow. You should send me compliments, not condolences...
This year Whiskers grew sick and feeble. Last week a veterinarian discovered that he had a brain tumor and put him out of his misery with a lethal injection of a barbiturate. In their sorrow, the men of Hook & Ladder Company No. 1 experienced something almost like relief. Whiskers had never learned to get back down ladders. He had answered 3,000 alarms, had climbed on an average of twice at each fire, had been cornered in the smoke, rescued against his will, and had been lugged back down to the street-all 60 wriggling pounds of him-on each...