Kraft loved the Patriots since the sad sack days of the 1970s and '80s.

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He started off bemoaning the sad sack performance of the global economic.

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In the popular World War II cartoon strip The Sad Sack, the character was a naive, confused, lazy, bumbling private, but happy enough and almost lovable.

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How else to explain the sad-sack tone from the leaders of the four biggest U.S. banking companies after their respective earnings announcements in the last week?

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As Yelena, the seductive young wife of a pompous older professor, Ms Blanchett bewitches both the sad-sack Vanya (Richard Roxburgh) and the rakish doctor Astrov (Hugo Weaving).

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The sad-sack Harold becomes a bit of a lush, but he joins AA and gets a handle on it.

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The worst sad sack of all was Jim Crow.

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" All leading up to the punch line: As they watch sorry Old Peg and his sad-sack horse and crumbling buggy ramble down the road and out of hearing range, Allen Gore, known for being a dead-serious man, puts his arm around his son and deadpans, "There goes your future, Albert.

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The Cardinals also let Whisenhunt go on Black Monday, Dec. 31, cutting ties with the winningest coach in franchise history and the one who helped resurrected a sad-sack franchise.

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For Robert Kraft it all started in 1971 on the cold, hard metal benches of a sad-sack football stadium in Foxboro, Mass.

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The second-ranked organic food chain, sad-sack Wild Oats Markets, often loses money.

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She does this now rather than ferry her doddering mother (a feisty Frances Sternhagen) to the grocery story or chitchat with her husband (a sad sack John Ellison Conlee) or hover over her daughter (a solid Phoebe Strole).

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The story, set in Lisbon, concerns Eloi (Henrique Canto e Castro), a paunchy middle-aged man, who finds Samuel (Dinis Neto Jorge), a young sad sack, about to kill himself by plunging into the sea.

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The talented, likable athlete is supposed to have a sublime season in the final year of his contract, become a free agent and cruelly abandon whatever sad-sack village he's living in with crummy pizza, zero Trumps and no Momofukus or even Milk Bars and run straight to New York.

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Man is an existential sad sack who instinctively sets up a game of hide-and-seek with the audience.

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