Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Religion, patriotism and a tragic history fed a current of romantic fatalism that runs deep in the Polish character...
...almost certain to be John Henry, a six-year-old bay who won eight of his ten races in 1981 and $1,798,030, to extend his record winnings to $3,022,810. John Henry is not a steel-driving man exactly; he is a gelding, a tragic condition referred to around the backstretch as the unkindest...
History has repeated itself several times in Poland, and this manifestation is no less tragic than previous encounters with crackdowns, invasions and oppression. No one has fought for freedom more feverishly than the ten million members of Solidarity, and they have paid a heavy price. It is one of the saddest ironies that for many Eastern bloc nations today, the price of freedom often exceeds the cost of repression...
...Granny fell and broke her hip." When the word first passes around the family circle, younger members especially are not seriously concerned. But that cavalier attitude quickly changes in the tragic sequence of events that so often follows: circulatory problems, including blood clots, respiratory infections like pneumonia, severe muscle atrophy during prolonged immobilization. Each year about 200,000 older Americans suffer from this seemingly minor accident. As many as 40,000 die of complications within six months, and another 40,000 are so disabled that they require chronic care in nursing homes for the rest of their lives...
...author picked a good time to stop this volume, leaving Odets before he enters into his tragic decline. He will never again match his early dramatic successes. He will move on to Hollywood as a screenwriter, at the time a well-known repository for manque artists. He will go on to become a friendly witness for the House Un-American Activities Committee. And, perhaps most sad, even his early plays would lose favor...