Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week of his 82nd birthday, but Pope Pius XII was in no mood to celebrate. For days he fumed and brooded in his chambers. Then Osservatore Romano curtly announced that because of "the bitterness, sorrow and outrage in Italy," His Holiness had canceled the festivities that were to mark the 19th anniversary of his coronation. Finally, the Vatican lashed out at the culprits who had aroused its fury: it excommunicated the three Florentine judges who had convicted the Bishop of Prato of criminal defamation for having called the civil marriage of a local couple "scandalous concubinage" (TIME, March...
...Ondrej flies into a jealous rage, reveals in a drunken soliloquy that he is the murderer, later confesses publicly. Katrena retires with her bastard child to live with old Stelina, father of her lover, and the chorus, as commentator on the action, concludes that "life sings of joy and sorrow...
...night last week to hear Lieut. Colonel Ahmad Husein proclaim a "revolutionary government with full sovereignty over all Indonesia." Designated Premier of the new state was Sjafruddin Prawiranegara, ex-Governor of the Bank of Indonesia and a bitter personal enemy of President Sukarno. Cried Sjafruddin: "It is with deep sorrow and sadness that we are compelled to raise the banner of challenge against our own head of state. We have talked and talked. Now we must...
...nuclear power, and is concentrating on small experimental reactors to test the most likely methods. AEC hopes to foster an industry producing possibly 95 million kw. of nuclear power by 1980, or 25% of the estimated total power demands of the U.S. But U.S. industry is learning, to its sorrow, that there is a vast gulf between atomic power in the lab and in commercial quantities. Costs have shot up to the point where they discourage even the richest companies...
Helena was brilliant but pretty much a failure in school. She was skinny, freckled, and given to uncontrollable giggling even in the presence of sorrow. Her special love was her maternal grandmother, a lady so old and fat and on such good terms with the bishop that she was permitted "to hear Mass from her bedroom window." In a devoutly Catholic town ("If grandma would give me the money she spends on Masses, I'd be rich. I don't know if what I'm writing is a sin") Helena went through all the religious forms...