Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subdue a tyrant. In the minds of many, a doubt has lingered from last year's presidential campaign over whether Bush had the heart to use power. The explanations of inaction from his Secretaries of State and Defense and his White House staff have echoes of almost every sad incident of our times, going back to Pearl Harbor. Bush's caution will probably not displease the bulk of American people now. But history sorts out the facts and is a harsher judge, not influenced by popularity polls...
Losing the Canadian is a sad sacrifice to the bottom line. It is a steel bond linking towns that nobody would otherwise visit with cities that nobody would otherwise leave. During the summer months, 3 out of 4 Canadian passengers are foreigners, seeking perhaps a window on a country. The rest of the travelers are natives, many of whom are seeing the land across the mountains for the first time...
...nurturing and concerned professor who worked particularly well with graduate students," said William R. Keylor, chair of the B.U. history department and Hall's longstanding colleague. "I'm very sad...
Witt, a member of the Communist Party, called the exodus "sad...
Washington's tacit backing of the Khmer Rouge may have contributed as much to the diplomatic impasse as did Hanoi's support of its stubborn Cambodian clients. That sad symmetry is beginning to look like the latest blight on America's dismal record in Southeast Asia -- and the Bush Administration's first major foreign policy debacle...