Word: crestfallen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William Rothenstein once painted Einstein's portrait in Berlin. Throughout the sittings the great man conversed steadily with a thickspectacled stranger who sat in a corner looking "like an ancient tortoise." From time to time the stranger shook his head solemnly, and Einstein, crestfallen, would relapse into temporary silence. When Sir William took his final leave, Einstein explained apologetically: "He is my mathematician, who examines the problems I place before him and checks on their validity. You see, I am not myself a very good mathematician...
...next morning (April 24) disarmed, crestfallen Greeks filed into waiting trucks for internment behind the barbed wire of an ex-German prisoners' camp. They were still there last week, an unsolved problem for the British and Premier George Papandreou, who had come out of Greece to form the sort of coalition government the mutineers wanted...
...road building, forestry and flood control. Unlike their officers, they can be required to work, although not at any task directly connected with military operations. Twenty-two prison camps scattered about the U.S. now hold 36,688 Axis captives-22,110 stiff-necked Germans; 14,516 resigned Italians; 62 crestfallen Japanese...
...Crestfallen North American Co.-which in a happier era the President had once cited as an example of a "good" holding company-has 90 days to decide whether to surrender to SEC's disintegration order or to carry its battle on to the Supreme Court. SEC was inclined to hope that it would, since a Supreme Court ruling would decide the issue once and for all, make it unnecessary for SEC to fight four other death sentence challenges now in the lower courts. But even before last "week's decision five big systems had knuckled under, filed disintegration...
Washington, which had not been informed of the unusual award, learned about it from an A.P. dispatch, ordered Lieut. Ridout to "capture" the E forthwith. Tactfully the crestfallen lieutenant told the Globe-News that the Navy wanted its E back. Old Tack roared: "Tell 'em to send the Marines," and headed for the safe...