Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tragic extent of the thalidomide disaster was officially confirmed last week in West Germany, where the malformation-causing drug was first synthesized eight years ago. Since 1957, when the sleeping-pill-tranquilizer was approved for over-the-counter sale, announced the Public Health Ministry, it has caused 10,000 cases of birth malformations in West Germany alone. In the U.S., only a handful of thalidomide-connected malformations have been reported, but there are more than 50 deformed babies in Canada, close to 1,000 in Britain, untold scores more across Western Europe, in Japan and South America, where the drug...
...first Briton to penetrate to the headwaters of the Blue Nile, at Lake Tana in Ethiopia. Bruce's intrusion into the "nightmarish fantasy of Ethiopian affairs," where he casually joined as it suited him one or another of the chronic little local wars, is a historic comedy with tragic forebodings. Bruce himself was an arrogant braggart, and Moorehead has great fun with his efforts to discredit the stories of missionaries who had been there before...
Looking back on the grueling work and tragic loss of life, Italian Operations Chief Loris Corbi spoke for his half of the vast Franco-Italian project: "This event is like a chorus, now sad, then happy, sometimes soft and sometimes loud, sung by all the people of Italy for all the people of Europe...
...here in Los Angeles heard the first announcement of the tragic death of Marilyn Monroe about midmorning on Sunday...
...hand, the funeral was sober, orderly and brief. But even burial did not bring the long wake to an end. The temptation of mystery was too strong to ignore, and gossipists busied themselves with its narrow questions. Mexican Film Writer Jose Bolanos was suggested as Marilyn's tragic Lothario, and a friend in Mexico City announced breathlessly that Marilyn and he had intended to marry in September. Writers even troubled themselves with the identity of the anonymous mourner who sent $50 worth of roses to the funeral-together with a love sonnet from Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Marilyn...