Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Common Man more things are tedious than tragic. But the saga of Portia Parsley is a legitimate tragedy--one of the great wastes we think about over stale beer and dirty postcards...
Almost forgotten in the week's tragic news was the fact that Alpha and Bravo both landed in England after record-breaking crossings. The time, covering 3,442 miles: 5 hr. 27 min. 42.8 sec.-or an average 630.02 m.p.h.-for Alpha; 5 hr. 29 min. 37.4 sec. for Bravo...
...question of his future and a step up the social ladder for themselves. Though he lacks dedication, Philip is not without conscience. But his earthy hungers are stronger than any spiritual pull. He starts to drink, winds up with a mistress, and is finally crushed by the tragic results of his best-meant advice to a parishioner. The moral: be yourself...
...meetings with congressional leaders, private sessions with visitors. He got influential businessmen to send the Congressmen letters plugging the bill. He supplied Democrat Mills and House Minority Leader Joseph W. Martin with powerful ammunition: individual letters from the President warning that adoption of the Simpson bill would be a "tragic blunder...
Onetime Staff Sergeant Matthew Mc-Keon, 33, on the slow Marine Corps road back, after he was busted to private following the death by drowning of six recruits from his training platoon on a tragic night march two years ago, earned a promotion to corporal...