Word: mournful
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...fought desperately against efforts to make the plant's operation cleaner. Harvard acts as though it exists in a vacuum, and pays no attention to the repercussions of its actions in Cambridge. Today the city is powerless to do much beyond draping City Hall in purple bunting to mourn its problems; but if the day should come when it can act against the University--and it may be approaching--the city may respond to its years of ill treatment with disregard for Harvard's needs in return...
...think the Soviets will move either directly or indirectly against the Yugoslavs," Ulam said. The Soviets "will probably send a big delegation to the funeral to mourn," he added...
...have an affair with Sophia Loren, his co-star in the 1961 adaptation of Shaw's The Millionairess. He says he was so smitten that he confessed this indiscretion to his wife. It led ultimately to their breakup, which friends and family believe he continues to mourn. Loren claims they were just good pals who used to cook dinner for each other occasionally. Sellers is outraged by this dismissal of an event that he believes changed his life (he is barely mentioned in the bestselling, authorized book about Loren by A.E. Hotchner). In 1964 he met and married Starlet Britt...
...EDITORS of the Crimson rejoice in the memory of William O. Douglas as we mourn his passing...
...late. Demonstrations and protest marches that started as a genuine popular outbreak grew by a kind of spontaneous combustion. The first parades drew fire from the Shah's troops, who killed scores and started a deadly cycle: marches to mourn the victims of the first riot, more snooting, more martyrs, crowds swelling into the hundreds of thousands and eventually millions in Tehran. Khomeini at this point was primarily a symbol of the revolution, which at the outset had no visible leaders. But even in exile the Ayatullah was well known inside Iran for his uncompromising insistence that the Shah must...