Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Full of Beans. For Mossadegh, it was a hero's welcome. The crowd broke uncertainly into the new Iranian Oil Anthem: "Happiness dawned in the east, sorrow came to an end." Refrain: "The year had not elapsed before oil was nationalized. Home of lions-Iran! Iran!" It took Mossadegh's green 1950 DeSoto a full hour to make its way through the crowds to the Shah's Palace four miles away. One ragged, tearful old man trying to show his devotion by sacrificing himself under the car wheels was snatched away by the police...
CRIMSON president William M. Simmons '52 expressed sorrow when informed of the decision. "I'm sorry," he said...
...Jones was on view in Manhattan: 20 delicately colored, wiry-lined pictures of beaches, towns and harbors, scenes just as American as his old bosomy wheatfields, but painted with a French accent something like Dufy's, astringent instead of earthy, and without a spark of sorrow or anger in them. Even Jones's signature had changed from bold printing to graceful handwriting...
...draws blood instead of chuckles. An outraged network executive complained to the New York Herald Tribune, Webster's employer, that The Unseen Audience is undermining the confidence of the American public. Says Webster: "The burden of his letter was that he wanted me muzzled." Another wrote, more in sorrow than in anger, agreeing that the industry had its shortcomings and suggesting that Webster drop in some time and talk the whole thing over ("The burden of his letter was that the profits were so juicy they just couldn't help themselves...
...East, with his back to the congregation, he faced the Ark of the Covenant. On the lectern before him lay the great scrolls of the Torah, the book of the law of Moses. Rabbi Finkelstein's clenched right hand beat upon his breast in the traditional gesture of sorrow. Clear and strong, in the twang and guttural of the Hebrew chant, his voice rose...