Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before the canonization, terrorists, armed with hand grenades and submachine guns, killed a two-year-old boy and wounded 38 other Jews leaving festival services in Rome's largest synagogue. In his sermon honoring Kolbe, the Pope said, "The tragic fate of so many Jews destroyed without pity in the concentration camps has already been condemned, firmly and irrevocably, by the conscience of humanity. But unfortunately, even in our own time criminal episodes of anti-Semitic hatred are repeated." He then denounced the "execrable attack" of the preceding day. Jewish leaders nonetheless complained bitterly that the Pope...
...speech at the University of Nevada's Reno campus, he said of his Democratic critics: "Where were they when the economy first started going haywire? What are they offering now except the same failed policies of the past? We're all paying the penalty of those tragic excesses...
...because no Iranian alarm was raised until two or three hours after our people had all left Iran. I am still haunted by memories of that day-our high hopes for success, the incredible mishaps, the bravery of our rescue team, the embarrassment of failure and, above all, the tragic deaths in the lonely desert. I actually slept a couple of hours, then got up early to prepare my television broadcast, which would explain to the American people what had occurred...
...peers, perhaps betters, as a novelist, belletrist, essayist and short-story writer, but they are different people in each case. Updike's versatility has been achieved at some cost. The rules governing his work have remained consistent and deliberately circumscribed. Wit dominates passion; irony mocks the possibility of tragic grandeur. The feelings most likely to seize Updike's comfortably situated people are nostalgia and lust...
...Carter of his most frustrating experience as President: trying to free the American hostages from Iran. In the concluding TIME excerpt from Keeping Faith, Carter tells of the fallen Shah's fateful visit to the U.S., the seizure of the Americans on a day "I will never forget," the tragic failure of the rescue mission in the desert and the 444-day ordeal that ended in freedom for the hostages. Carter also tells of those achievements for which he expects historians to give him greater credit than did the U.S. voters who rejected him in 1980: his human rights policy...