Word: crestfallen
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...employees without jobs. With $639 billion in assets, the firm's filing is the largest in history. Throughout the day, as media crews hovered around the entrance to the firm's Midtown Manhattan headquarters, some of Wall Street's best and brightest trickled out onto the pavement, their faces crestfallen and their ties yanked askew...
...many of the big-name comics she tried to hire for the Main Room turned her down, and the ones who did work there weren't doing much business. "Mitzi was just crestfallen," says Argus Hamilton, the young comic from Oklahoma who was her errand boy and confidant at the time. "She had built that room for Buddy Hackett, Don Rickles, Shecky Greene, Bob Newhart - all those guys, her ex-husband's generation, who were ruling the roost in Vegas at the time. They refused to play the Main Room because they thought it would hurt their Las Vegas draw...
...buzzer-beating jumper by guard Noah Savage which gave the Tigers a 60-59 win. Harvard coach Frank Sullivan called it at the time “Not only the most heartbreaking loss of the season, but in awhile.”“We were crestfallen after the two buzzer beaters,” Sullivan adds in a recent interview. “They really took a lot of steam out of us. I think from a coaching-staff standpoint we didn’t know it knocked that much steam out of our guys at that point...
...came out tonight to learn about how to be a great lover, well that’s another talk,” he said. A scan of the crowd revealed many a crestfallen face...
Will you miss West Wing? I hate to see it go. When I first saw it on the air, I was just crestfallen. I thought, "How can I not be on this great show?" I was just hoping to get a guest spot...