" It was the saddest thing that ever happened to me ", she says of the experience of her parents ' separation.

When the novel opens, Edek Zepler is an old man of 76 who certainly enjoys good food, a man living alone with his dog in the old house in Melbourne, feeling rather alone — in spite of an active Jewish community in his neighbourhood — and without any life in him since his wife's death in 1986 (" The saddest thing did already happen to me.

Groza, who was 44 years old when he hung up his spikes, said in his memoir that retiring was " the saddest day of my football life.

It was one of the saddest days of my life.

At a press conference the following day, Governor Robert E. McNair said the event was "... one of the saddest days in the history of South Carolina ".

He said it was " one of the saddest days in the history of South Carolina.

Neither a trained theologian nor skilled in the business of the Curia, he was tactful and prudent in a difficult era, but Ludwig Pastor, who passes swiftly over his pontificate, says, " The numerous endeavours for unity made during this period form one of the saddest chapters in the history of the Church.

Eric Homberger called him " the saddest heart in the post-war supermarket "— Larkin himself said that deprivation for him was what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

Grant wrote to Chief of Staff Henry W. Halleck, " It was the saddest affair I have witnessed in this war.

Famed sports author Pete Hamill mentioned that one of the saddest experiences of his life was watching Robinson lose to Archer.

The saddest and most heart-rending aftereffect of the Fifth Battle was its effective destruction of the relationship between the races of Elves and Men.

Later, he met " a set of women doctors who were working too hard to get a date on Friday nights and so would get together instead, drink cheap liquor, eat chocolate, smoke cigarettes and have a competition to decide who was the saddest fucker of the week ".

It was one of the saddest events to hit Skegness and debris from the wrecked pier was left scattered for several miles around with souvenir hunters quickly coming into the area to see what they could find.

The bill was hailed by gay and liberal activists as another step forward out of the country's apartheid past, while at the same time some clergy and traditional leaders described it as " the saddest day in our 12 years of democracy.

' To me that was the funniest, saddest line in the movie, and my favorite, because in the script he wasn ’ t supposed to say anything.

His mother's indifference and distance from him marked him with an enduring sadness, as did the infant death of his only son, from which event was born his saddest and most personal book, Mortal y rosa, ( A Mortal Spring ).

The summer of 1985 was remembered as the saddest weeks for German racing, as both German formula one drivers, Manfred Winkelhock and Stefan Bellof died within three weeks in WEC races.

According to Kenneth Bloom, Mack & Mabel was " The saddest failure of Jerry Herman's career ".

" Perhaps the saddest chapter in the annals of professional American sports is recounted in absorbing fashion in Eight Men Out ... The most compelling figures here are pitcher Eddie Cicotte ( David Strathairn ), a man nearing the end of his career who feels the twin needs to ensure a financial future for his family and take revenge on his boss, and Buck Weaver ( John Cusack ), an innocent enthusiast who took no cash for the fix but, like the others, was forever banned from baseball.

Dejected and frightened, the dog was " the saddest, most mistreated-looking beagle I'd ever seen ", Naylor later said.

" One historian wrote that after the 1963 assassination Billings was " Probably the saddest of the Kennedy ' widows.

The saddest thing about this is that ' My Hero ' was written as a celebration of the common man and his extraordinary potential.

When the proposition was first broached in the band room, one of the saddest looking men was the leader, Loren Currier.

Tisha B ' Av is a fast day that commemorates two of the saddest events in Jewish history that both occurred on the ninth of Av — the destruction in 586 BCE of the First Temple, originally built by King Solomon, and destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE.

* Pandit Motilal Nehru, father of Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, called the massacre the " saddest and most revealing of all.

Dave Palmer, his former band mate, said: " It's the saddest, most tragic end you could have.

It is the saddest novel in the world about the saddest city, and when I say I think it is the best and most honest work that Hemingway has done, you may think me crazy.

Louisa May Alcott, who was ten years old at the time, later wrote of the experience in Transcendental Wild Oats ( 1873 ): " The band of brothers began by spading garden and field ; but a few days of it lessened their ardor amazingly.

In Elizabeth Gaskell's biography, Anne's father remembered her as precocious, reporting that once, when she was four years old, in reply to his question about what a child most wanted, she answered: " age and experience ".

As the old ways erode, more and more pilgrims arrive to experience the planet of Muad ' dib.

The technique of discus throwing is quite difficult to master and needs lots of experience to get right, thus most top throwers are 30 years old or more.

It attempted to depict the totality of the mid-Victorian social experience in a single image, depicting ' navvies ' digging up a road, Heath Street in Hampstead, London, and disrupting the old social hierarchies as they did so.

Critics of hypertext claim that it inhibits the old, linear, reader experience by creating several different tracks to read on, and that this in turn contributes to a postmodernist fragmentation of worlds.

In an example taken from his high school experience, Miller recalls that one of his classmates ... struck upon the brilliant idea of using an old, broken mousetrap as a spitball catapult, and it worked brilliantly .... It had worked perfectly as something other than a mousetrap .... my rowdy friend had pulled a couple of parts -- probably the hold-down bar and catch -- off the trap to make it easier to conceal and more effective as a catapult ... the base, the spring, and the hammer.

When he was five years old, Palin had his first acting experience at Birkdale playing Martha Cratchit in a school performance of A Christmas Carol.

I simply accepted, reaffirmed, and extended a very old experience.

The sport is moving more to a circuit racing style also known as " run what you brung ", which makes for a better TV and spectator experience, though there are still old fashioned endurance offshore racing classes.

The cast of the film was mostly composed of unknowns ; this was particularly true of nineteen year old Brigitte Helm who had no previous film experience.

Burned by her Toomorrow experience and concerned that she was too old to play a high school senior ( she turned 29 during the latter 1977 filming ), Newton-John insisted on a screen test with the film's co-star, John Travolta.

" His experience is vast, and he's especially good with the young players in our minor league system, the 17-and 18-year old kids.

His entry into the military was influenced by his experience of seeing Prussian troops enter his hometown in 1871 when he was eleven years old.

His first experience of semi-professional baseball came in 1895, when he was just 14 years old.

The film publication Cineaste published a review of The Italian in March 2009, focusing on the film's depiction of the Italian-American immmigrant experience as a Darwinian jungle rather than a promised land paved with gold :" Against Horatio Alger expectations, The Italian is a story of failure suffused with a soft-focused, dappled nostalgia for the old country ... ' From sunny Italy to the New York ghetto ,' read the taglines on Paramount's original one-sheet, contrasting scenes of ' carefree Beppo at home ' in the serene canals of Old Italy with the mean streets of New York where ' to live your baby must have Pasteurized milk.

Due to the diverse background of many of his bands members such as their cultural background, socioeconomic status, age variations from young to old as well as musical experience ( some having none at all ) a broad range of ideas were developed and fused together leading to the early beginnings of jazz music.

Lee Merkel Field has something for everyone: from an experience in a glider to your glider rating ; from a dream of flying to a Commercial Pilot Certificate ; from a basket of old parts in a barn, to a bright shiny better than new restored antique airplane ; from a young person's dream of flight to memories of a lifetime.

He writes that " widespread acceptance of readiness and independent toileting have since been supported by clinical experience and resulted in agreement that a child should be ready to participate in toilet training at approximately 18 months of age and be trained completely by 2 or 3 years old.

The young, 26 year old Cumberland owed his position to his high rank and he had no prior experience commanding an army.

To battle his old adversary, Napoleon had a force of some 30, 000 troops, but most of these were just out of the recruiting camps with little training and no wartime experience.

Her early death, when the boy was only five years old, was a traumatic experience that, in his own words, " deeply scarred " the future composer.

Young star Sarah Polley, who was nine years old at the time of filming, similarly described it as a traumatic experience for her.

The band moved to Townhouse Studios for recording sessions with producer Peter Walsh, who introduced them to a London-born drummer called Mel Gaynor, a 22-year old session musician with plenty of experience ( including a stint drumming for The Nolans ).