Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fight v. Fact. The fight was Washington's most tragic waste of time and energy. The facts were clear, their meaning simple. Nobody had any business taking issue with them...
...citizens tore the newspapers from the vendors' hands. In the black type they read the unbelievable story: "Fighting at Stalingrad has ceased." With bowed heads they heard it read over the radio, not to the blare of the Nazi Horst Wessel march, but to the strains of the tragic old German folk song: Ich Hatt' Einen Kameraden (I Had A Comrade). They did not know that some 115,000 officers and men had laid down their arms. But they knew that Stalingrad had been lost, and that it was one of the worst defeats suffered by any German...
...student, Yeats began to hear professorial excitement over the vowel sounds ("I scarcely knew what a vowel was") in his Innisfree. He talked to Shaw and Kropotkin and William Morris at Kelmscott House; to Arthur Symons and Lionel Johnson and Ernest Dowson and Edmund Dulac-the "tragic generation" of the fin-de-siècle-at the Rhymers' Club; to John Todhunter and the intense young clerks of the Southwark Irish Society...
...continuing press ban, more than 100 Indian newspapers refused to print any news at all (TIME, Jan. 18). As agitation reached a climax the Raj compromised; and the Professor's friends persuaded him to accept. At stake was a moral issue, typical of the root evils in the tragic Indian political situation...
...report on Nazi child-training. In Berlin a German-born U.S. schoolgirl meets a U.S.-born German lad who is being indoctrinated in a Nazi school. Several years later he is a Gestapo officer, she a teacher at Berlin's American school. In the course of their tragic, not too credible romance, the camera visits German parents fearful that their offspring will snitch on them, a girls' work camp where rabbit morals are encouraged, a state home for unwed mothers (beams a pregnant Fraulein: "I hope I have much pain. I want to suffer...