Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many national dignitaries attended the celebration; dozens more sent regrets and wished the city a happy 250th. Joining the mayors of New York, San Francisco and a dozen other cities, not to mention literary figures like Walt Whittier in expressing sorrow at not being able to attend, was the poet James Russell Lowell. "Where'er I roam, whatever climes I see, My heart, untravelled, fondly turns to thee," Lowell worte...
...European diplomatic presence in the city. The Dutch have a particularly warm place in the hearts of Israelis, for having shielded Jews during World War II and for enduring a severe Arab oil embargo on Israel's behalf during 1974. Israel, a Foreign Ministry statement said, expressed "deep sorrow and sadness" at the "cynical pressures" that forced the Dutch to act on the Security Council decision...
...Israelis took the embassy moves with sorrow, they expressed undisguised anger over the American decision to abstain on the U.N. vote rather than cast its veto. Ignoring the provocative nature of the Knesset vote that had led to the U.N. action, Prime Minister Menachem Begin blasted the U.S. decision as "amazing!" Nor was he in any mood to try to sweeten the atmosphere by making some concession that might get the stalled Palestinian autonomy talks under way again. On the contrary, in yet another action certain to arouse Arab ire, Israel last week announced that it would proceed with...
...driven to acts of violence when legalities are adjudicated but justice is forgotten. And I will add that a truly sincere single parent, usually the father, must abide by the injustice, pay for the administration of the injustice, but in the end stand by frustrated and filled with sorrow as his own children slowly withdraw from...
...impersonal, the sales of antimedical books have risen faster than fevers. Case in point: Martha Weinman Lear's Heartsounds, now in its third week on TIME'S bestseller list. Unlike Cousins' account, it has no upbeat conclusion about the body's ability to heal itself. Sorrow unfolds from the book's opening line: "He awoke at 7 a.m. with pain in his chest...