Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...circumstances surrounding the tragic episode involving Senator Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechne were honorable, Kennedy-or one of his friends -would have sought help immediately...
...were to believe the Boston Globe, an uncritical supporter of the Kennedy family, this girl's tragic death actually adds to Teddy's political esteem in his home state because people are now even more sympathetic toward...
...Assume that your friend and cousin, having had a tragic accident, comes to your door late in the evening. He is completely exhausted, in shock, and has water in his lungs and a slight concussion. Do you call a doctor? Don't be ridiculous. The proper thing is to take your friend to the nearest ferry and, when the ferry is shut down for the night, just calmly stand there and watch him swim across the channel, preferably fully clothed. Now he'll be able to recuperate all by himself in a nice comfortable motel room...
James Reston of the New York Times concluded that the real question "is not whether the voters of Massachusetts can live with the Senator's account of the tragedy, but whether he can." To Columnists Frank Mankiewicz and Tom Braden, the case was tragic "in the Shakespearean sense of a puzzlement of the will, of judgment suspended and flawed at a crucial moment...
Military officials readily admit that their communications equipment is not at fault. The blame rests on human errors in the sending and routing of messages-and in acting on available information. One tragic mistake occurred in June 1967 when the Joint Chiefs of Staff ordered the spy ship U.S.S. Liberty to leave its station in the Mediterranean off the Sinai Peninsula. The message failed to arrive until after Israeli jets attacked Liberty, mistaking it for an Egyptian vessel. Thirty-four U.S. sailors were killed in the attack. A woman clerk in the Pentagon had routed the Liberty order...