Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was the tragic end of an afternoon's walk two youngsters took through the woods of Bedford, N.H., to nearby Sandy Pond. Two firemen are lifting out the bodies of Irene Biron, 12, and her cousin Robert Bourque, 7, after hacking out a 25-ft. channel through ice to reach them. A search began when the youngsters failed to come home at dusk one day last week, continued through the cold, foggy night. The bodies were discovered next day when a posse of neighbors, relatives, police & firemen saw the shimmering red & white of Irene's sweater beneath...
Cause of the incident was a touchy, tragic subject. When Russia concluded her one-week war against Japan in 1945, she scooped up a total of 2,400,000 prisoners, soldiers and civilians alike. Last week, 376,000 Japanese were still listed as Russian prisoners, and U.S. officials estimated grimly that most of them had died in Russian labor camps...
...Bicycle Thief. Italian Director Vittorio (Shoeshine) De Sica's tragic classic about a Roman worker and his small child buffeted by modern society (TIME...