Word: dejectedness
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Crimson coach John Yovicsin was plainly dejected when he spoke with reporters after Saturday's 43-20 loss to Holy Cross. "We thought we would get a much better game out of our boys," he remarked. "But the Holy Cross backfield ran like hell and trampled everything in sight."
Bleak Ending. The author's dawn men are a tiny, dejected band-six adults, one of them a moron (his mind makes few telepathic pictures), a small girl and an infant. Hungrily they trudge to their upland hunting grounds at the end of winter. They know that their numbers...
"They've thrown us a bone every few weeks," said a dejected Air Force sergeant in England last month, "but I can see the writing on the wall. They ain't comin' through." Like thousands of others, the sergeant had ceased to believe in the recurring rumor...
Eyes fixed on the ground and thick arms hanging limp at his sides, he stepped from the mound and shuffled toward the shadowed dugout, looking for all the world like a dejected pitcher who had just been shelled out of a crucial game. Only when his teammates swarmed about to...
Britain's famed public schools have long believed in the efficacy of corporal punishment (during this century at Eton, boys were held by two of their schoolmates over a flogging block to be beaten by teachers). The present Home Secretary, R.A.B. Butler, is on record "in favor of parents...