Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first women allowed in male-dominated work places, secretaries and other office-workers have long endured the indignity of being told exactly what women could and could not do. As the victims of America's 350-year plunge into slavery. Black women bear a tragic legacy unknown to any other member of their gender in this country...
Capote makes this quotation his centerpiece and turns Jake Pepper into a tragic hero of sorts, a Sam Spade in dungarees and pointy boots. Clues refuse to fall into place for him. Pepper's eminent reason cannot fathom the dementia of Quinn's "nasty mind...
That dramatic juncture in the unfolding epic of Poland's labor crisis last week took place at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk. It showed that the strike leaders had come to recognize the momentous perils and potentially tragic consequences of what they had begun. Their emotional yet disciplined strike for rights, a grass-roots upheaval that was in many ways unprecedented in Moscow's postwar fiefdoms of Eastern Europe, had left Poland teetering on a tightrope...
Producer David Merrick waited until the cast of 42nd Street had grinned, waved and danced through almost a dozen curtain calls on opening night at the Winter Garden Theater before coming onstage and making an announcement to them and to the audience: "This is tragic. Gower Champion died this afternoon...
...danger for wider conflict lies in the tragic reality that Lebanon-in the best of times an uneasy pastiche of disparate religious and political groups-is a cockpit of regional, not just local, antagonisms. The key rival forces...