Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kick the British out, since 3,000 Maltese employed at the base would immediately lose their jobs. That is a blow the poor and crowded (pop. 320,000) country could hardly sustain. Last week, when Mintoff canceled the Sixth Fleet visit, there was sorrow among the island's shopkeepers and the girls of "The Gut," the red-light district. According to one estimate, Malta lost $360,000 by keeping the sailors away...
...horizons." Pope Paul interrupted an audience to announce the sad news. In Geneva, officials postponed the dedication of a gleaming titanium space monument that had been donated by Russia to the Palais des Nations. There was particular gloom in the U.S. space community, especially among the astronauts. Beyond their sorrow for the dead cosmonauts, they felt that the accident-coming as it did on the eve of the Apollo 15 moon shot-might well diminish public enthusiasm for manned space travel...
There are particular people who should be very much on our minds and consciences. We owe special honor and comfort to the families of the Americans who gave their lives in Viet Nam, and we owe a special scorn to any politicians who might seek to exploit their sorrow. We owe far better medical care to the Viet Nam wounded than they are getting in many of our hospitals. We must, of course, bring home our prisoners from North Viet Nam, though it may not help to treat this as a condition for, instead of a consequence of, peace...
...named Lewis, about to divorce his wife to marry a young girl, had broken down in sobs as he recalled his grief over the death of his beloved Aunt Anna. "She was always accepting me as I am. Being with her was like peace," he explained. Reviewing his childhood sorrow as his wife listened, Lewis recognized that his girl friend represented the goal of his lifelong search for another Aunt Anna. This led him to return to his wife, now more understanding because she had shared his secret feelings...
...recollected the time when he himself had felt intense grief"-when his father remarried. Then, Paul helped him reconstruct what he knew but had blocked off: that when he was four, his mother had killed both his nine-month-old sister and herself. Because he had repressed his sorrow instead of facing it, he had never recovered from the experience. Under Paul's guidance, he saw that he was jealous because his son still had what he himself had lost so early-a mother. That hidden jealousy, it soon became clear, was the real cause...