Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...LOOKING BACKWARDS, it seems almost tragic to Hershey, or perhaps comic, that he really has nothing worth reporting," says the entry. Fifty years after graduating from Harvard College, Omer Fenimore Hershey, a retired lawyer living in Florida, reflected on his life and told the class secretary there was well, not much of interest...
...spina bifida, in which there is incomplete closure of the spine, and anencephaly, in which the brain fails to develop fully. British researchers found that when women who had already given birth to a malformed child received folic acid supplements during a subsequent pregnancy, the chances of a second tragic birth fell sharply...
...caged princesses must play power games, with their rivals as opponents and their servants as pawns. Subtly, sullenly, the women flaunt their femininity -- and in doing so destroy any chance for their sisterhood to flower. Songlian, the youngest, is the first to rebel against this system. A tragic comeuppance awaits...
Because they were afraid to set a totalitarian precedent, the courts set a tragic and wasteful one. They should have allowed Theresa Ann's parents and doctors to end her life. This decision would have implied that anencephalic infants were a special case of de facto brain death...
...performance is at once unassuming and good-natured, strong and endearing, painful and tragic. Sam must communicate to the audience the pain of the play--that although in ballroom dancing "accidents don't happen," in the world "we are all bumping into each other. No one knows the steps and there is no music playing...