Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second of two excerpts from An American Life, former President Reagan recalls the sorrow and the pity of Lebanon and how his efforts to bring home the hostages went wrong when Oliver North and John Poindexter tried to help. -- Prince Charles and the tea bag.-- Pinning down Madame Mitterrand. -- Valedictory...
...partly educated there, whose vision of life has been transformed by the openness and dynamism of American society, and who cherishes the generosity of its political principles and respects the strength of its democratic creed, I can only witness the deterioration in American life with dismay and sorrow...
Hoffman avoids the easy sentimentality of her last book, At Risk, the story of an 11-year-old who contracts AIDS through a blood transfusion. In Seventh Heaven, when a young girl dies accidentally after a group of high school boys cruelly take advantage of her, the sorrow does not really hit until a classmate cleaning out her parents' garage discovers the notebook she kept of each day's outfits and accessories, and a box of matching shoes, all shined...
...first, I was insulted by the offer, but my sorrow mellowed when hers turned out to be my best job offer of the day. After a string of rejections from all 12 casinos and most of the restaurants in the area, I began to doubt the value of my Ivy League education...
DEPARTING IS SUCH SWEET SORROW. Members of Violeta Chamorro's new government in Nicaragua keep finding little surprises bequeathed to them by the defeated Sandinistas. Some offices have been stripped of everything but the nails on which pictures once hung. The new Minister of Communications searched his premises in vain for accounting ledgers; he did discover a contract for the purchase of 22 new Toyotas, for $392,000, all apparently driven off by army members. The incoming mayor of Managua learned that $52,192.53 was distributed as bonuses to six employees, some of whom quit promptly when he took office...