Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boarded shops, a failed cosmetic for a busted-up prizefighter of a town that crumpled along with its industries. The forces that flattened Camden may be the same ones that have pounded scores of other industrial centers throughout the Northeast in the past 20 years, but a particular sorrow attends the destruction here. Camden is a city of children; nearly half its population is under 21. This is a town that, with fewer than 100,000 residents, has more than 200 liquor stores and bars and not a single movie theater...
...sorrow and the danger, the stench and the dilapidation, it is sometimes easy to ignore the most visible sign of change in Camden -- a project that many people are convinced is the seed of a new city. Investors have pulled together roughly a quarter of a billion dollars that will bring to the Delaware waterfront the headquarters for GE Aerospace, plus a hotel, waterfront park, the nation's second largest aquarium and an office tower to contain the world headquarters of Campbell's Soup. The hope, says Thomas Corcoran, president of the Coopers Ferry Development Association, is that the complex...
...abandoned baby on her morning run and, afflicted by empty-nest malaise (their son is growing up), begins a campaign to adopt the foundling. An earthquake thunders through town, a neighbor dies suddenly, and overhead the police helicopters endlessly circle, their probing searchlights constant reminders of disorder and imminent sorrow...
...them on to Keenan, and so forth. Then calamity struck. "I took off my glasses and dropped them and broke them," he said. "My eyes are very bad. Couldn't see." End of silent, cell- to-cell dialogue. End of story. "That was a bad day," he concluded, the sorrow returning for a moment with the memory...
...immense wave of attention the U.S. has been devoting to the 50th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor has made Japan nervous. Using language more specific than usual, Foreign Minister Michio Watanabe told the Washington Post, "We feel a deep remorse about the unbearable suffering and sorrow Japan inflicted on the American people and the peoples of Asia...