Word: sorrowings
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...each other; an urgent personal desire for retaliation; bitterness because they had given their all and reaped this, while some of their more cunning but less conscientious brethren at home were giving nothing and reaping all; horror because of the added indignities they had suffered even after death; sorrow for their parents, for their girls, and for the many people who must grieve and forget as best they...
Eddie Rickenbacker, World War I ace and, on occasion, envoy extraordinary for Secretary of War Stimson: "Sorrow will come to a million American homes...
...Hamburger Fremdenblatt, which in a Christmas editorial exhorted bombed-out Germans to forget their "sorrow over the loss of goods and chattels," by meditating upon "indestructible things," suggested that religion "has again become modern...
Confucius' discovery that music is an infallible indication of the state of a country's moral and political health -"when the heart's chord of sorrow is touched, the sounds produced are sombre and forlorn"-has carried its ever-new message across the centuries to the turbulent days of the Horst Wessel song...
...nothing else, they did indicate the terrific scale of the fighting and the losses on both sides. When the people of Moscow went into the streets on Nov. 7 to celebrate the 26th anniversary of the revolution, their hearts were glad with victory. But they were also heavy with sorrow. For few Russian families had not sacrificed lives to keep their country free...