Word: mourning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time in over a decade, American warplanes are not killing people. An estimated one-third of Cambodia's 12 million people were made refugees by the American bombing. Yet the bombing is over, and most of them can go home now--home to rebuild, to mourn for dead friends and care for crippled cousins, to try to live again...
...Even though I disagreed with Allende's idea of the perfect society, I respected him for the courage to implement it. I truly mourn the loss of anyone who, like him, played the game squarely and then, when he was the victor, was overthrown by men who have no rules...
...found himself increasingly isolated and plagued by failing health. Two years ago he relinquished his post as party First Secretary, naming his longtime protégé Erich Honecker as his successor. Ulbricht retained the largely ceremonial office of Chief of State. Few Germans, East or West, will mourn his passing. Yet few can deny that Ulbricht alone was the architect of modern East Germany, whose separate existence the West Germans have finally accepted and 89 nations now recognize...
These are the Little Girls Blue that Judith Rascoe has chosen to mourn and celebrate. How do they get that way? A chronic case of rootlessness helps. Rascoe heroines begin life in bad boarding schools ("A Line of Order"), grow up to borrow haunted apartments from the friends of friends ("Small Sounds and Tilting Shadows"), and climax their fate rolling down the road in a camper ("Short Rounds with the Champ...
...parking lots for kids. It's living death, all right, except for the diners. If, as is possible, everyone in Cherry Hill flushed their toilets at once, and it sank into the Delaware (the escalating sewage routes have not been clearly tracked down), few people without family ties would mourn the loss of the town...