Word: mourn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tension," not peace, guarantees a sizable role for Moscow in the Middle East. Premier Kosygin and the high-powered four-man delegation of military and Middle East experts who accompanied him to Cairo were not there merely to mourn Nasser. The Russians may be hoping to influence the selection of his successor; the day after Nasser was buried, Kosygin and Soviet First Deputy Defense Minister Matvei Zakharov discussed matters with Sadat and former Prime Minister Ali Sabry, who is Russia's foremost advocate in Egypt...
...death as in life, Sukarno was a problem. As Indonesia's deposed President last week succumbed at 69 after a long bout with kidney stones and high blood pressure, Djakarta's new leaders pondered the questions of how much to mourn him and how much to memorialize him. Indeed, many Indonesians were in a quandary over their bapak (father). Some felt that they should pay homage to him as the founding father who proclaimed Indonesia's independence in 1945 and spawned a sense of national identity. Others were prepared to damn him as the profligate...
...honor those who died in World War I and II. In those wars the United States fought by necessity, and the United States fought honorably. But today I cannot celebrate Memorial Day. I mourn for these who have lost their lives in the Vietnam...
...lobbying congressmen if you must, but act. Act with the danger of the GI and the sacrifice of the resister in mind and act as forcefully as your outrage dictates. Make today more meaningful by resolving that because of your efforts there won't be 5000 more to mourn for on the next Memorial...
...Quiver Queen, and Moonbeam McSwine (complete with an armful of randy piglets). Like most such houses, it has been reduced in recent years to skin flicks, separated by the geriatric gyrations of faded strippers. Now the Gayety is being torn down to make way for a parking lot. To mourn the moment, the town fathers brought Harold Minsky and his troupe from Las Vegas and persuaded Rose La Rose to come out of retirement. The result was simultaneously salacious and a much too respectable salute to a bygone...