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...when her mother-in-law died. She was 60 when the bleak news of Franklin Roosevelt's death came from Warm Springs. For 40 years-years she could not have imagined as a bride-her life had been irrevocably part of theirs. She was a lonely widow. But the 40 years had pushed her far out into the rushing stream of events. Harry Truman asked her, as custodian of the Roosevelt name, to serve the U.S. in the United Nations...
...once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong
...Koje, the bleak and bloody island where the U.N. holds 130,000-odd Chinese and North Korean prisoners of war, strife between Communist and anti-Communist factions is constant, relentless and apparently uncontrollable. Recently, among the North Koreans in Compound 93, the anti-Reds got the upper hand, and the enclosure was suddenly converted to freedom. Work parties from 93 began to sing South Korean songs and wave homemade R.O.K. flags as they were marched to & from their jobs...
...Industrial Prince. After the war, he proposed three times to a Scottish lady named Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon before she accepted him. She was a commoner (the first to become a Queen since Henry VIII's day), and dreaded the bleak rigidity of royalty's life: "I said to him I was afraid . . . as royalty, never, never again to be free to think or speak or act as I really feel . . ." On the eve of their wedding in 1923, the London Times looked right past the royal couple and remarked, with more meaning than good manners, that the public...
...Lowry's hatred of his subject soon gave way to fascination. His bleak mill fronts, belching factory chimneys, sooty church steeples and tenements with their threadbare inhabitants took on an otherworldly look for him. "To say the truth, I was not thinking very much about the people. I did not care for them the way a reformer does. They were part of a private beauty that haunted...