Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this vagueness that makes the tragedies of this war all the more tragic. As idyllic as these goals might seem, war cannot be looked at with dry eyes and clear consciences. The simple merciless fact is that people will die when bombers drop bombs. It doesn't matter how virtuous and just a war claims to be--the abstractions always reduce to the somber and desolate realities of warfare...
...fail to see the connection between a tragic death of an alumnus and underage undergraduate drinking," said Mark D. Metzl, president of the Inter Fraternity Council (IFC) and a member of the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity...
...TRAGIC CIRCLE...
...choices were more unconventional. At TIME's 75th-anniversary party last year, BILL GATES said his career was particularly influenced by the Wright brothers--so he was chosen to write about them. And though TIME senior writer PAUL GRAY is no computer expert, he was picked to tell the tragic tale of Alan Turing. Says Elmer-DeWitt: "I needed someone who could break the readers' hearts...
Turing's 1937 paper changed the direction of his life and embroiled a shy and vulnerable man ever more directly in the affairs of the world outside, ultimately with tragic consequences...