Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unlikely he has any sorrow about how he has lived his life. For Robbie Risner considers himself "the luckiest man in the world to be doing what I'm doing...
Carl Nagin too, who played Macduff, has a good voice and a fine sense of timing. The form employed them well. Blau's Banquo has an air about him that suggests great insight and great sorrow...
Comparison shopping is the housewife's sole-searing equivalent of a bureaucrat's requesting sealed bids from competing contractors. But there are times when something gets lost in the translation, as Mary Scranton, 46, wife of Pennsylvania's Republican Governor, found to her sorrow when she submitted a $1,554 bill to the state for some rust-patterned draperies made for her husband's reception room by a Harrisburg decorator. "Absolutely illegal," sniffed the auditor general, a Democrat, refusing to pay on grounds that she hadn't asked for sealed bids. "A bargain...
...Bidone. Round and solemn as a barrel of holy water, a fat old bishop (Broderick Crawford) rolls ponderously out of a big black automobile and stands staring at a huddle of Italian peasants. "My children," he informs them in a sanctimonious monotone, "I bring you tidings of great sorrow and good fortune. During the last war, a man was murdered and a treasure hidden on the land you own." The peasants, quivering with avarice, scuttle off to the appointed spot and dig up the treasure: an iron casket crammed with smoldering brilliants. "Worth at least six million lire," the bishop...
Grieved by the tragic assassination of John F. Kennedy of the Class of 1940, President of the United States, the Board wishes to place in its record for future generations of the Board this expression of sorrow and affection for its former colleague...