Word: sadder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...noon on Sept. 3, Chamberlain rose in the Commons -- newly outfitted with blackout curtains -- and announced that his years of effort to appease Hitler had ended in failure. "This is a sad day for all of us, and to none is it sadder than to me," he said. "Everything that I have worked for, everything that I have believed in during my public life has crashed into ruins. There is only one thing left for me to do: that is to devote what strength and powers I have to forwarding the victory of the cause for which we have...
Finally, boxing legend Sugar Ray Robinson, 63, died yesterday. The world is a little bit sadder today...
...doubt, abandoning his son for a game would have seemed the greater treachery. Many fans these days believe that baseball players who turn their heroism to capital, selling autographs to kids (Mickey Mantle earns more from signing his , name than he ever did from playing ball), are committing far sadder infidelities than Boggs...
...seen people brought to a meeting by a friend who, after being cautions at first, will "absolutely break down and find that the best thing they could possibly do was to let loose." When participants leave the meetings, she continues, "sometimes you feel relieved or sometimes you feel sadder than you did before...
Five years after undertaking the project, Hamilton is sadder and presumably wiser, although not necessarily richer. Random House footed the legal bills, but of his $100,000 advance, the biographer used up half for research and travel expenses. And there was the cost of ambivalence: "I proceeded with as much tact and decency as one could," says Hamilton. "Nonetheless there he is, wanting to be left alone, and he isn't being left alone, and this is partly because of me." If he had known the outcome, would Hamilton have written about Salinger? "No," he says emphatically. How does...