Word: poignantly
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...that 200,000 people, including 100,000 civilians, died during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945, the biggest campaign of the Asia-Pacific War. The Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum, peace- museum.pref.okinawa.jp, is located in the eponymous park on the southern tip of Okinawa Island and showcases poignant exhibits. One section covers the lead-up to WW II, another the postwar period when Okinawa was transformed by U.S. military occupation...
...people displaced by floods in the Philippines; for surprises, like the shot Kate Westaway took of a playful humpback whale while she was snorkeling; and for poetry, like Douglas Mills' resonant picture of the Kennedy family at the burial of Senator Edward Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery - a poignant moment captured after all the other cameras had turned away...
...history of Chinese literature and hundreds of essays, including small masterpieces like his eloquent 1926 tirade against the warlord government of the time for gunning down unarmed patriotic student protesters. His stories are wide-ranging in style and subject, from the touchingly nostalgic and straightforward "My Old Home" (a poignant look at the gulf that grows over time between two Chinese villagers of different classes) to the fiercely polemical, stylistically experimental "Diary of a Madman" (which offers a crushing indictment of the stultifying effects of Confucianism). Above all, Lu Xun is not just a great writer. He is an essential...
Perhaps most poignant, the situation has affected how kids play. At Ali's school, the students are not allowed to play in the courtyard anymore because of fear that someone might toss a bomb over the wall. But staying home isn't an option. "I am ready to die for my country," says Sarim Zaidi, with a determination both uncommon and tragic for a 17-year-old who merely wants to go to school...
...many, the damage has been done, and the UC has lost all the credibility it has worked so hard to cultivate over the past year. Harvard undergraduates deserve an organization with the ability to impact positive and lasting improvements to student life. What makes this controversy so particularly poignant is that it will undoubtedly jeopardize the UC’s ability to be that organization in the future...