Word: sorrowfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...current gamble is to maintain his public support with a series of apologies, so that the retribution that he may face for his actions is lessened by a Congress that is responsive to public opinion. That is his strategy: to use his sorrow to cushion his landing once his case crashes into the impeachment process...
WASHINGTON: If there was ever a time for healing, this was it. President Clinton seized his final opportunity to express sorrow before the release of Ken Starr's report Friday at a widely televised White House prayer breakfast. The stony mask he wore during the August 17 speech to the nation was gone; in its place, glistening eyes and a cracking voice. "It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow that I feel is genuine -- first and most important my family, also my friends, my staff, my Cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family...
...crash 12 months ago, but to her family and the international community of those who mourn her, it has been a transformative lifetime. One year on, an older, grayer Prince Charles, approaching his 50th birthday, has quietly taken to wearing his wedding band once again--a sign of sorrow and affection glinting from beneath the signet ring on his left little finger. At the same time, the prince appears happier and more relaxed than ever before--as if he and Britain have at last reached an accommodation, a liberation from past demons...
...timing of President Clinton's Moscow summit was lousy, the reverse is true of his trip to Northern Ireland. Since the shaky summer of Drumcree and the shock and sorrow of the Omagh bombing, the province appears to be very much back on the track to peace. All but one of the renegade guerrilla groups have declared a cease-fire; Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has begun to renounce violence with all the passion of a would-be Nobel laureate; and just before Clinton touched down Thursday, news came through that Unionist leader and first minister David Trimble had agreed...
DISAPPOINTING RUSSIA In Reds (1981), socialist John Reed dies in sorrow when he sees the Russian Revolution go awry--much like liberals did when the U.S.S.R. invaded Afghanistan...