Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eventually, as stockpiles of silver begin to decline, the price of silver seems certain to rise. And yet, as so many speculators have learned to their sorrow, the inscrutable silver market is a law unto itself. Right now, researchers are avidly seeking substitutes for silver in the manufacture of film, which accounts for 25% of its industrial demand. If they are successful, the silver market will shudder through still another convulsion...
...squinting, toothy, obviously insincere smile that he must use two dozen times in the course of the play, and each time it brings a laugh. To express surprise his mouth opens into a huge rectangle and stays there for seconds. When he is in pain or sorrow, he screws up his entire face so that all we can see is part of his nose. It's an outrageously exaggerated performance, and it works...
...that the U.N. has voted on the China issue to the sorrow of all freedom-loving peoples, our nation should at once cut all its U.N. financial contributions by 75%. This would give the newcomers from Peking the opportunity to take over not only the contributions previously made by free China but also an amount commensurate with their own teeming population and the expectations of their duped friends...
Three years ago last month, the 1968 Mexican student movement came to a bloody end when army tanks rumbled into a student demonstration in Mexico City killing over 200 men, women, and children on what is now remembered as "La Noche Triste"--the night of sorrow, While the movement lasted, it rivalled and sometimes surpassed the more famous movements of Paris and Columbia in both the size of its demonstrations and its shattering effect on the national power structure. But the protest died as suddenly as it began, and Mexican students left the streets for more than...
...second floor and I on the third, but we were safely out of Morse code range. Each of us was living, eating, and sleeping with a police spy informer, so that we were in effect being interrogated every waking hour for months on end. Every moment of sorrow, pain, and humiliation for me I knew was one for her as well. The spy holes on the door opened every ten minutes, the lights clicked on and off all night in a mad psychedelic light show. We were subjected to the "hot and cold water treatment" of having a roommate (usually...