Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harry S. Truman has been inspecting a plane. He went in smiling, and he comes out as if he were returning from hell. How many other times has he got stuck without knowing how to get out? And he keeps getting stuck, to his own sorrow and the justified wrath of many others...
...dead dog Rusty, just run over by an automobile. But Hearst's Chicago Herald-American, ever mindful of their chief's campaign against vivisection, put the picture on Page One for a different reason. It duly noted the facts about Roger and Rusty, continued: "Roger's sorrow parallels that felt by a child whose pet has been stolen and carved up for vivisection. Bill pending in the Illinois legislature would foster such base thefts and multiply the grief of boys like Roger...
...Communist methods than to Communist ideas. Said he: the Indian Communists were "lunatics or utter idiots if they thought that throwing a bomb here or burning a tramcar there could influence millions of people." He admits a strong emotional attraction toward Communism and the Soviet Union. More in sorrow than in anger, he has spoken of the "excessive use of violence in normal times" in Russia, but he also holds that Soviet Russia's "success or failure . . . does not affect the soundness of the theory of Communism...
Reinhold Niebuhr lashed out at modern attempts to achieve complete human happiness in a serman at Memorial Church yesterday, and at the same time he presented a view of "true joy" that comes "on the other side of sorrow...
...Young May Moon, by P. H. Newby. Adolescent sorrow in a quietly effective novel by a talented Englishman (TIME...