Word: sorrowfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...give meaning to his death. Each of us must let Congress and President Johnson know that we choose to honor our late President with the enactment of his courageous civil rights program. Let his spirit and ideals carry us forward in law. In the midst of sorrow and bewilderment, it is the only tribute that rings true. Stanley Mllgram, Assistant Professor of Social Psychology...
Johnson greeted assembled Administration officials and, with his wife at his side, stepped to a bank of microphones and said: "This is a hard time for all people. For me, it is a deep personal tragedy. I know the world shares the sorrow of Mrs. Kennedy and the family. I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help...
Former President Dwig D. Eisenhower and Herbert Hoover both issued statements of sorrow in New York City. Former President Harry S. Truman said he was "shocked beyond words." Richard Cardinal Cushing, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston and a lifelong friend of the Kennedy family, said "This terrible tragedy has deprived our country of one of its greatest Presidents...
...aggressions of Communism, not explicitly attack the liquidation of Europe's Jews? The issue has intrigued many modern historians, since Pius clearly detested Hitler's totalitarianism as much as he loved the German people. He helped draft Pius XI's encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge (With Burning Sorrow), which condemned Nazi racism in 1937. When the Germans organized a roundup of Roman Jews in 1943 and 1944, the Pope made no formal protest, but allowed convents and monasteries to take in refugees, and offered 50 kilograms of gold to ransom the lives of 200 Jewish leaders. In Hungary...
...felt a deep union with God," reports one participant. "I remember feeling a profound sense of sorrow that there was no priest or minister at the altar. I had a tremendous urge to go up on the altar and minister the services. But I had this sense of unworthiness, and I crawled under the pews and tried to get away. Finally I carried my Bible to the altar and then tried to preach. The only words I mumbled were 'peace, peace.' I felt I was communicating beyond words...