Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lift and lift for a while. On those mornings, with the Maine mist not yet burned off, and the sea damp settled upon us, I can imagine that I'm just starting the voyage all over again-I can believe I'm lying on the rug old Sorrow liked to lie on, and it's Iowa Bob beside me, instructing me, instead of me instructing my father...
Muller was airlifted to a U.S. hospital ship, where he awoke in the intensive care unit to learn that he would be paralyzed for life. "The sheer joy of waking up, of being alive, overwhelmed any possible sorrow," he says. It was only after he was brought home to New York, trussed in a Stryker frame like a roasting turkey, and eventually transferred to a Veterans Administration hospital, that his long-pent-up emotions overcame...
...from Miami, the national chairman of the American Anti-Nazi Association, who lost 85 relatives in the Holocaust, brought two stones. "One is for the 6 million, and one is for a memorial to the 5 million non-Jews who were killed," he said. "The Holocaust was a Jewish sorrow, but Jewish sorrow is enveloped in world sorrow...
Recalls CNN President Reese Schonfeld, 49: "When we started up and I saw that it could work, there were tears in my eyes." If Schonfeld could have predicted his balance sheet, those might have been tears of sorrow. Starting with a scant potential audience of 1.7 million and a paper-thin $25 million annual budget,* CNN soon faced operating costs close to $3 million per month during the heat of an election summer. News Director George Watson, the former head of ABC's Washington bureau, quit in frustration after two months of broadcasting; others followed. Most threatening...
...world was left searching for new ways to express shock, grief, horror, apprehension. By now the words have all been said-again, and again, and again. But they acquired new poignancy last week. Of the millions of expressions of sorrow, none exceeded in directness and simplicity the cry of a sobbing woman in Madrid: "The world has gone...