Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Back." Reuther seemed disturbed by the course of national politics. He was afraid "a lot of decent guys" would vote for Henry Wallace if the Democrats renominated President Harry Truman. He said he thought it tragic that Truman had inherited the presidency "at a time when the world needs great leadership." He believed Supreme Court Justice William Douglas could be elected, that labor could back him with a vast campaign if he were nominated by the Democrats...
...Berman came to the U.S. For a while he painted murals for fashionable houses, covers for Vogue and Town & Country He settled in Hollywood, "the way New York artists go to Connecticut. It's a quiet life, very few people." But he seemed to yearn for the tragic actors and the monumental stage sets of Renaissance Europe. He began to produce ever larger, ever emptier pictures of a girl with her back turned (she might have been his own Muse). At last, as if his pictures were decaying with his talent, he gave his canvases a moldy, gnawed...
...than as people to be redeemed. Most of the "religious" persecutions perpetrated in Christianity's name, Bennett admits, have been no better than the Communist variety. But here again, "Christians should know that they and their opponents or enemies belong together before God, and they should realize that, tragic as the situation is in which they seek to destroy their enemies, they never can rid themselves of concern for enemies as children...
...only tragic note in the contest was sounded when a sprinting Deacon slid into third baseman Bob Allport, and the latter suffered a broken ankle...
These disasters shaped the mood of the delegates convened at Nanking for China's first National Assembly. Out of the clamor of more than 2,500 peoples' delegates -talking, questioning, accusing, cursing-arose the authentic voice of China. Its tone was laden with tragic discontent, and with something close to despair...