Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pass from Serge Boily into the goal's upper left corner. At 17:42 Larry Davenport took Billy Hinch's pass from the point and scored with a quick, power-play back-hander. A minute later Hinch's slap shot was deflected past the screened Crimson goalie, epitomizing the tragic injustice of the evening...
Hopefully, help and encouragement to the discouraged student might be found in informal student-faculty contacts. That such is rarely the case is doubly tragic: not only is the student left to fend for himself, but the quality of academic intercourse is impaired...
...when her auburn-haired beauty caught. Griffith's eye and he signed her to a contract at $3 a day. She moved a generation of moviegoers as Flora, the star-crossed little sister, in Birth of a Nation, went on to become Griffith's always tearful, often tragic leading lady in Intolerance, A Child of the Paris Streets and The White Rose. In the 1920s, she was one of Sam Goldwyn's original Goldwyn Girls, earning $250,000 a year -but then came the talkies and the fading of her nova...
...mindful of the potential costs. Many observers believe that severance for Dow protesters was narrowly averted last Fall and that it would be unavoidable in the event of a recurrence. The loss through severance of students whose consciences lead them to protest Dow's appearance here would be tragic to the Harvard community, especially considering the ease with which the Faculty could have avoided a return engagement. Students should carefully weigh these costs against what they consider the benefits of a disruptive protest at this time...
...mostly by the NLF, Pontecorvo's heroes. In accepting the slaughter of hundreds of citizens, guilty only in their complacent acceptance of a derelict social structure, Pontecorvo emphasizes the validity of necessary social upheaval, regardless of its price. Each death becomes not a crime of the NLF but the tragic consequence of years of unjust colonialism and prejudice...