Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sides are using against each other. Disregarding U.S. pleas that the dispute should be settled between themselves, Bourguiba demanded an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council, where Tunisia accused France of "premeditated aggression." France's U.N. Ambassador Armand Bérard retorted that the Tunisian events were "tragic and regrettable," but that "a minor pretext was used by the government of Tunisia-some minor work, involving two or three meters of terrain to facilitate the landing of planes...
...equal to the number of live births. Authorities see a significant relation between this high abortion rate and the fact that the prescription and sale of all contraceptives is forbidden by a French law passed in 1920 in the hope of boosting the birth rate after France's tragic World War I losses...
...Safety Council predicted that 450 corpses would litter U.S. highways during the four-day July 4 weekend. By July 5, the estimate proved conservative: 509 car riders had been killed, and "a new record" set. Lamented Safety Council Vice President George C. Stewart last week: "One of the most tragic weekends in our history...
...raise the Code Hero to something like tragic dignity, there had to be the risk of death. From Fossalta on, Hemingway had death as an obsession; the bullfight gave it to him esthetically, as a ritual, with order and discipline. In Death in the Afternoon, he states his tragic creed flatly: "There is no remedy for anything in life." His Winner Takes Nothing; his lovers lose all. His fictional stages are strewn with corpses. In To Have and Have Not, there are twelve, which compares favorably with the Elizabethans. Nemesis, in the Hemingway tragedy, is bad luck. "I was going...
Infantry of the Mind. The trouble with the metaphysics of chance is that it is too shallow for a true tragic destiny. Unlike the Greek and Elizabethan heroes, the Hemingway hero does not understand his fate. It's simply a dirty trick...