Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...denying that against the destructive virtuosity of surface raiders, of Nazi airmen and of seamen lying in the chill, sweating bowels of the U-boats, the British convoy system was far from effective. The great danger was that, with better weather, it would become even less effective. In the tragic, high-hearted history of Britain's first 18 months of war was the admitted record of at least 4,300,000 gross tons of shipping lost at sea. This was a net loss (after replacements) of some 2,650,000 tons (TIME, March 24). Less than...
...Mayor calls this strike 'a tragic mistake' and denounces its leaders as bullheadedly and stupidly refusing to arbitrate...
...most tragic chapter in U. S. history was written around an enigma which neither the North nor the South understood. That enigma was the South itself, and it is still unsolved. Last week a Southerner published a book that casts more light on the ancient riddle than any book before...
...accept what pleases him and reject what does not." In every plantation white these traits were strongly enhanced by the Negro, a champion pleasure man and dreamer. As for the mass of poor whites-locked off on poor land from the plantation world, indifferent to labor-theirs was "a tragic descent into unreality," a "void of pointless leisure...
Soon after he was appointed chairman of what is virtually a Ministry of Postwar Reconstruction last month, Laborite Arthur Greenwood broadcast his ideas as follows: "Britain, after the war, will not tolerate in her midst the tragic spectacle of abject poverty, nor the existence of . .. unemployment...