Word: tragically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Catholic youths, said the Cardinal, had fought for the U.S. "Their broken bodies on blood-soaked foreign fields were grim and tragic testimony to this fact." Would Mrs. Roosevelt deny equality to those Catholic boys? "Now my case is closed," concluded the Cardinal. And even though Mrs. Roosevelt might "attack" him again, "I shall not again publicly acknowledge you . . . Your record of anti-Catholicism stands for all to see . . . documents of discrimination unworthy of an American mother...
Tobey: That would be tragic...
Webster: It would be tragic for the manufacturers who sell the obsolete sets, but [it] would not be tragic for the public who kept their dollars in their stockings to wait for color television. The only way to get the industry going is to have the public buy sets...
...stands a love symbol: a pair of giant legs topped by a hairy mask. In Scene 2, on "the Isles of Death," Tristan first dances with an insectlike apparition, then with something dressed as a sailing ship. In the end, Tristan is destroyed by his love, as in "the tragic nuptial rites of the praying mantis, in which the female devours the male...
...admitted a grave miscarriage of justice. Tobiansky was fully exonerated of treasonable intent. Former Lieut. Colonel Isar Beari, who had acted as Tobiansky's prosecutor, was formally charged with manslaughter. The Prime Minister wrote to Lena Tobiansky that her husband's execution had been "a tragic mistake...