Word: tragically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East Java nearly 4,000 Dutchmen and their dependents have given up hope, plan to leave as soon as possible. Last week there were reports that Dutch in North Sumatra, who had hitherto not been directly threatened with expulsion, were also about to depart on their own. Most tragic were Eurasians with Dutch citizenship. Most of them, born in Indonesia of Dutch fathers, had never seen the homeland to which they were being shipped. By week's end some 9,000 Dutch had left...
Thank you for your Dec. 16 report on the happenings in Indonesia. As usual, the facts are admirably presented, although the occurrence is a tragic...
Loud applause for your exposing the weakness of Khrushchev's loud and bumbling propaganda attempt to convince the rest of the world that the power of the American long-range flying bomber is over. This is an insidious lie, made more tragic by the fact that some Americans have come to believe it. One of the best things that could happen to the world right now would be for Khrushchev to launch one of his ICBMs. He could undoubtedly kill a lot of Americans (maybe), but for the next five years he could probably not hit a single significant...
...built is that of Captain Langsdorff, whom Churchill himself described as "a high-class person." But the screen play of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger scarcely shows what happens on the German warship during the fateful engagement, and does not mention the captain's suicide at all. A potentially tragic figure thus never becomes even really interesting...
LAST TALES, by Isak Dinesen. Gothic stories ranging in scene from Denmark to Italy, and turning on the tragic ironies that bow kings as well as poets and murderers. Superior fare for those who like a mixture of the sublime, the grotesque and the supernatural...