Word: downheartedness
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A. I don't think you could say that President Roosevelt, Mr. Churchill and Mr. Stalin were starry-eyed idealists. They had been through the fire of war. Did anybody really think in 1945 that every government would renounce the use of force in its relations with every other government...
The political odds are still heavily in Walter Mondale's favor. So why does he seem anxious and downhearted? And why is Gary Hart, who still figures to be an also-ran at the San Francisco convention eight weeks from now, so full of zip and good cheer?
"Sometimes when you're really downhearted from injuries and all, you say why in God's name am I doing this?" Meyer said, "But I think about competing and winning and it keeps me going."
A Happy Ending. Was Boswell downhearted? Not for long. After a thrilling visit to the chief of the Corsican rebels, he dashed off an eloquent Account of Corsica and found himself suddenly a bestselling author. Three years, four courtships and five mistresses later, Boswell was well established as an Edin...
In more serene times, the campus chaplain had little more to do than pre pare sermons for compulsory chapel and ladle out doses of manly Christian advice to the spiritually downhearted. Today, he is likely to wear wrinkled chinos instead of a turned-around collar, read Playboy as well as...