Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deeply, and set the ladies swooning with his resonant "Good afternoon!" After Nebraska's Senator George Norris went down to defeat broken and embittered in 1942, Ashurst wrote to console him: "You speak of 'great'; no man is great unless he has had suffering, sorrow and humiliation . . . Defeat, at the summit of a notable career, is a symbolism so symmetrical that poets and dramatists never ask a more nearly perfect theme." The theme did not fit Henry Fountain Ashurst. But he had his own, which was to say what he felt, with eloquence...
That wall built of our sorrow we know must have...
After an earlier story in the Charlotte Observer, a moderate paper, Waring did run a rambling editorial expressing "sorrow" over "the picketing of King Street stores in an attempt to force employment of clerks on the basis of race." Then the paper curtain descended once more-and stayed down. Said Waring: "This paper is not interested in promoting boycotts." Said News & Courier Assistant Editor Arthur Wilcox: "We don't think it's a story...
...antiquated first-class carriages; they despair if the diesel hauling them pants into a station 40 seconds late. When a moneylosing branch line closes down, the island is roiled with grief. Cried the headline over a lengthy London Times story last year: THE TIDDLYDIKE BRANCH LINE DIES TODAY. Sorrow had hardly faded before British Railways raised fares to pay for other uneconomical Tiddlydikes...
During the trial. Lewis coldly testified: "I cannot sorrow for those pallid, under fed, ill-nourished operators of small mines who can't procession." keep up with the economic One predictable result of Lewis' policy: the number of coal miners at work in the U.S. has been more than halved (to 142,400) in the past ten years. And as displaced miners grow more and more desperate for jobs, they are increasingly willing to take work wherever they can find it - including nonunion mines. Last year one-third of the coal mined in the U.S. "captive" (excluding...