Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...atomic weapons by this country. Wishfully, he disregards or brands as communist rumors all statements by scientists that the Soviet has or can soon have similar weapons. This refusal to admit a fact invalidates his whole policy. Even on Burnham's amoral grounds, his plan is only a tragic joke...
...Uriah is a disconcerting, fair-haired innocent-a rigidly idealistic young soldier who takes noble vows and blindly worships his king. David finally concludes that death for Uriah would be infinitely less tragic than disillusionment and marital dishonor...
According to Hemingway, she shoots him deliberately. According to Mrs. Macomber, in the movie, it was just a tragic accident-and the audience is left to make up its own mind...
...play, first presented in the Abbey Theater in Dublin, is a tragic comedy about the life of a lower-class Irish family in the 'twenties...
Last week they abruptly stopped using it. New York City health officers flashed to the nation the tragic news that at least twelve small patients who had been treated with the drug had died...