Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last year, the frail health that had given him his tragic dignity began to get the better of him. He developed a grave heart condition, and he was warned to stay away from his ranch, to avoid riding horses and tilting with bulls. But with the spring, Belmonte could not stay away, could not forgo riding Maravilla, his favorite horse. An hour with the bulls last week left him with a pain so intense he feared he would die from it. Finally he made his decision. He mounted Maravilla for a last fond ride across his plain. He spoke with...
...refuting Teller, the scientists presented a "feasible arms-control agreement" calling for limited arms reduction and elimination of further arms production. They regarded Teller's own plan for the present nuclear situation as "not an illusion but also a tragic dissipation of all hope...
There are times when Cole's humor (which largely consists in ingenious shifts from classical speech to slang to officialese) becomes a little wearing. Portions of his play are difficult to follow, and some of the scenes where Midas is allowed to philosophize and act the tragic hero actually become serious. Fortunately Midas (George Larson) is a fine comic actor, and for the most he plays his role with a bogus sincerity that is just right...
...runs, the more he stumbles. Even in his home state after all these years, he seems trapped by that old familiar but vague charge that 'there is something about him that troubles me.' One hears it all again, like the echo of the past in a tragic play...
Paret lay limp and still, blood running from his eyes and nose. The cameras zeroed in for an endless moment, and better than any ringsider, the stay-at-home boxing buff saw the tragic picture of a fighter who had been all but killed in the ring. Next day, after an operation to relieve the pressure on his damaged brain, doctors gave Benny Paret "one chance in 10,000" to live. While he struggled to survive, boxing rolled with the punches as it took one more public pasting...