Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Misrepresentations. "I shall not campaign, in the usual sense, for the office. In these days of tragic sorrow, I do not consider it fitting. And besides, in these days of global warfare, I shall not be able to find the time. I shall, however, feel free . . . to correct any misrepresentations...
Twilight Rumors. From the cavernous stage of Hitler's Europe, from behind the censor's hastily lowered asbestos curtain, came a confused welter of noises: hoarse shouts, the sound of running footsteps, the sudden stutter of machine guns. It was like the opening scene of a tragic and savage Twilight of the Gods. Rumor cried...
...British, playing balance-of-power politics and encouraging a strong, pre-Hitler Germany; the assorted liberals, radicals, plain men of good will who trusted the Weimar Republic - all these, says Schwarzschild, were members of Germany's "foreign legions," and their illusion was part of the era's tragic foolery...
Said the State Department: "In startling similarity ... to Mussolini, Perón wishes to dedicate Argentina to ... a warlike life . . . which will inevitably lead that country to the same tragic consequences suffered by Italy...
...this day, the coinage and the postage stamps of the country bear the figure of Mary, the Mother of Mankind. It would be all the more tragic, therefore, if a people so devoted to Mary, the Jewish Maiden who was the Mother of the Messiah, freely countenance cruel laws calculated to despoil and annihilate the race from which Jesus and Mary sprang...