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Word: crestfallen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite an ode to romanticism, Travels With My Aunt is more an elegy to its passing. The romantic Cukor has turned capricious skeptic, and sentiment becomes a gambol. The loops of his freewheeling narrative dip eagerly into the past and circle back a bit crestfallen. And in between, cherished romance turns sappy to the taste and drippy to the nth degree. Cukor has dished out sentiment in order to bid it fond farewell...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: An Old Man's Daydreams | 1/24/1973 | See Source »

...that, unhappy with the minor role he had been given at the congress, Ulbricht stayed away on his own; the sulk could have been brought on when Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev arrived at Schonefeld and conferred his first fraternal bear hug and kiss on Honecker, leaving a crestfallen Ulbricht standing there on tiptoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST GERMANY: Toward a Triumvirate | 6/28/1971 | See Source »

...blow. Japan won only one title-in the women's team competition-for its worst showing since 1952. To compound the ignominy, the Japanese saw their 1969 world singles champ, Shigeo Ito, upset in the men's final by Sweden's Stellan Bengtsson, 18. Said a crestfallen spokesman for the Japanese delegation: "We simply have to have a sweeping reappraisal of our techniques...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Fastest Wrists in the East | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

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