Word: downheartedness
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Bookmakers made Notre Dame an eleven-point favorite, and the spread looked puny at half time. A 25-yd. field goal started off the Notre Dame scor ing-and then Quarterback John Huarte, winner of the Heisman Trophy as the nation's top college player, took charge of the...
Was she downhearted? Not noticeably. Lugging a trunkful of filthy lucre, Polly enrolled at U.C.L.A. and three years later, with the help of a good rewrite man, published her class thesis: A House Is Not a Home. In 1962 the old cat died a literary lion.
Last week Clint Murchison Jr. holed up on the brothers' private Bahaman island and took the radiophone off the hook; John flew off to Paris. Other Texas financiers, who had stomped their boots in joy when the brothers toppled an Eastern millionaire, were downhearted. More than glory had disappeared...
Korean women were advised not to wear jewelry, to "shun housemaids" and do their own housework, and to help "enlighten the public on the need for contraceptives." Korean men got the word to "refrain from exchanging vain tokens," to "avoid haggling over prices," and "to shake off the idea of...
Was Belle downhearted? Not in the least. She had the baby, wrote a book, married a millionaire from Cleveland, later switched to the middle-aged son of a British banker and ran through his fortune in about a dozen years. "Belle." he said gently one day, "we have no more...