Some deaths were caused by so-called drop-side cribs, which allowed parents to lower one side of the crib for easier access; in some terrible instances, infants were trapped in the gap and suffocated.
The deaths of parents, spouses, classmates; the births of children; prostate cancer, depression, money made and money lost, triumphs and tailspins; oceans crossed (or swum) and mountains hiked; dodging mortar in Afghanistan; and, in a few terrible instances, the kind of family tragedies we screen from our conscious minds to get through the day.
So rather than singing about how terrible, for instance, David Cameron is, a modern cabaret performer might search out a song written a century ago that lampoons some long-forgotten, but intensely loathed, authority figure from the past.
Working at a theatrical ad agency early on, I witnessed terrible star-exploding instances in group meetings.
GM chief executive Mary Barra said Tuesday: "Something went wrong with our process in this instance, and terrible things happened".
Currently, the technosphere is more a parasite than a partner of the biosphere – it is terrible at recycling, for instance.
For example, it seems unlikely that God can be both perfectly powerful and perfectly good if the world is filled (as it obviously is) with instances of terrible injustice.
Private firms, for instance, have a terrible time finding finance.
She had a terrible time having babies, for instance, but she's wonderfully domestic: she's a terrific cook.
"The storage unit, for instance, is in terrible shape.
