Word: crestfallen
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...cavortings of their spouses, but she is locked in some private bomb shelter of her sodden fearful mind, and will not hear. At this point, the play achieves a suffocating vision of evil that would take a second Flood to cleanse. Even sin is sterile. Martha returns with a crestfallen Nick and announces mock-grandiosely: "I am the earth-mother, and you're all flops...
Last week Johnston soundly thrashed his youthful rival in the primary, winning 65% of the 300,000 votes cast and all but one of the state's 46 counties. "I thought." said a crestfallen Rollings after walking alone through the night to concede personally to Johnston, "that I'd run you a better race...
Hopping over to Texas two days later, Kennedy landed in a drizzle at the L.B.J. ranch, was met by Lyndon Baines Johnson outfitted in a Texas rancher's cream colored leather jacket, tan Stetson, tight pants and cowboy boots. Johnson seemed crestfallen when his leader, in grey pinstripe Ivy League, politely but firmly declined to put on a five-gallon Stetson before photographers. But L.B.J. quickly picked up the pace, hauled Kennedy off for a bumpy inspection tour in a Lincoln convertible while the press and Secret Service men trailed unhappily behind. The President-elect peered through the windshield...
...days later, 47 library books turned up in a supermarket trash can and a county dump. Then Strucinski gave himself up at FBI headquarters, was arrested for interstate commerce in stolen documents. Last week, out on bail, he was arrested twice for burglary. Said Stanford's crestfallen Professor Stegner: "He was a talented boy. He earned his fellowship honestly." If convicted. Student Strucinski faces a fellowship of up to ten years in federal prison...
...crouched seven German teen-agers with only two weeks of military training. On the other side was a combat patrol of battle-hardened G.I.s supported by three Sherman tanks, artillery and planes. The result? Two U.S. tanks destroyed, a scatter of U.S. dead in the street and, finally, a crestfallen U.S. withdrawal to allow planes and artillery to soften up the remaining schoolboy defenders...