Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...snows of Hungnam, as the air was rent by protective bombardment and the tragic thunder of demolition in the face of the enemy, U.S. troops prepared to pull out of North Korea. Below the 38th parallel, in the Seoul-Inchon area and at Pusan, other U.N. forces stood fast. On the other side of the world, Western European nations, beset by doubts and fears, gathered to consider their common defense...
...might as well be now as ever; the U.S. was obviously going to go from one crisis to another for as long as man could look ahead. The U.S. people, New York's Irving Ives was convinced, were fed up with Acheson. "It all stems from the tragic mistakes made in Asia. Acheson is not entirely responsible for what happened. But he has acquired a symbolic role. It's probably unfair to him in some ways...
...Chicago, Presbyterian Dr. Harrison Ray Anderson appealed to his congregation "to correct an abuse which has developed at Christmas time . . . The Christmas party in offices and homes has in some places developed into a shocking situation ... Is not this year, with its tragic happenings, the time to ... substitute another kind of party more in keeping with the birth of the Savior?" Methodist Pastor Charles Ray Goff, a fellow Chicagoan, condemned what he called "heavy-drinking office parties. Office staff members," he said, "are caught with their guards down; they do not want to take part in the drinking...
...people is a tragic and comic two-face: hero and hoodlum: phantom...
Schulberg has undertaken a difficult task. Where he fails is in his characterization of the earlier author, for if we are to be moved by a tragic tale we must believe that Manloy Halliday was once a great author. To put this across, Halliday must do more than recall some wild weekends, his love of the twenties, fragments of the jazz...