Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sympathy for his client. He said that when they met for the first time, Peterson "was full of twitches, he had an uncontrollable nervous laughter, his face was flushing, his voice was trembling. He's a very scared kid." Earlier Hurley said that Peterson had not expressed any sorrow over the death of the child. Hurley also defended the parents' harboring a fugitive and reported that Peterson's mother, hearing her son might face the death penalty, wanted him to flee the country. She thought of Iraq or Syria as his havens since they don't have extradition treaties with...
...exhorting students to have a safe summer. A boy who played sports with one victim and the brother of a second, and shared a class with a third, asked to describe them, can only summon up, "They were cool." Teenagers lack the public vocabulary for multiple death and massive sorrow. With some exceptions. "I feel like hell," snapped the sister of one victim. "How am I supposed to feel...
...more officials say not to speculate about it, the more one speculates. Within a few hours, when it is clear that none of the 200-plus people who were on TWA Flight 800 are going to be found alive, the mood of the town is laden with sorrow. East Moriches (established early 1700s, population a little more than 4,000) is about to become America...
...memoir of Harvard in the 1960s. For his report on the TWA crash, Rosenblatt went to the town near the site, only 10 miles from his summer home. "I first learned of the disaster when an explosion shook our house," he says. "After that, it was all reporting in sorrow...
...songs bounce, throb and skip along, playful and carefree; what gives them substance is her unusual blend of ethereal vocals, folky acoustic guitar and forceful hip-hop percussion. The most engaging number is the title track, a flitty number about death that's charmingly blithe in the face of sorrow...