Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have a foreboding that something dangerous will happen to me for having spoken out so frankly, and the missionaries here fear that my fate will be the same as that of so many bishops in certain Red countries . . . We shall see. We are tranquil, but our sorrow lies in the fear that we may be expelled from China and have to leave our flock here and see the wolf enter the fold to make havoc of so many souls...
...hast Thou forsaken me?', if we remain at this point without ceasing to love, we end by touching something that is not affliction, not joy, something that is the central essence, necessary and pure, something not of the senses, common to joy and sorrow: the very love...
...express our deep sorrow and regret over the unfortunate accident which resulted in boxing losing one of our most promising aspirants...
Communist soldiers escorted Riberi from Nanking to the Hong Kong border. "I leave with sorrow," he said to those who came to meet him, "and my prayer is constantly for the Chinese people, for our priests, for our sisters and the faithful." There were special grounds for both sorrow and prayer. Behind him he was leaving imprisoned in Red China ten Catholic bishops and more than 200 priests...
...Song of Sorrow. Oldtime Cinemactress Marion Davies, the woman who had shared his life for three decades, did not attend. At her spreading Beverly Hills home, where Hearst had spent his last days and where he died, she told a nurse: "I had thought I might go to church this morning, but I will just stay here alone. He knew how I felt about him, and I know how he felt about...