Word: tragically
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...tales of hard-pressed people, few are more tragic than the history of affliction borne by the Indians of the U.S. Years of reservation life have left many of them mired in poverty and despair. In Washington the Senate's Select Committee on Indian Affairs is holding hearings on the general state of Indian problems, and they seem to be no better than ever: a high rate of alcoholism and mortality, desperate health conditions, low employment and income, rampant child abuse. Bad enough that years of failed policies administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs have contributed to the difficulties...
...Mandela had made mistakes. Murphy Morobe, a U.D.F. spokesman, said the organizations were particularly outraged "by the reign of terror" conducted by the so-called Mandela United Football Club, a gang of street toughs who live at Mandela's house and act as her bodyguards. The catalyst for her tragic fall: Mandela and her "team" are at the center of a police investigation involving three murders...
Twenty years later, we tapped Morrison for the job of bringing that tragic, pulsating, mythical year into perspective for our first TIME pictorial collector's edition, 1968: The Year That Shaped a Generation. A true child of the '60s, Morrison, now special projects editor, had even planned to spend his honeymoon at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, until his bride-to-be put her foot down. In 1968, he says, "we tried to capture something of the year's amazing, compelling electricity...
...living in Minnesota in 1968. But poring over 4,000 photos to make her final selections of 150 images, she felt "a shock of recognition and then the realization -- my God, all this happened in 1968?" Like her, you will rediscover the astonishing roller coaster of events, from the tragic (Robert Kennedy's vacant stare from the floor of the Los Angeles hotel pantry) to the trivial (a miniskirt dotted with peace symbols...
Recognizing the widespread nature of anti-Semitism in modern society, the new Church document condemns it as "the most tragic form that racist ideology has assumed in our century." In an attempt to dispel the myth that the Catholic Church was supposedly complacent in the face of Nazi racism, the document notes that Popes Pius XI and Pius XII condemned Nazi anti-Semitism in four official statements between...