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Word: heartbreaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ralph: Reagan was an entertainer when he sold us all those products, Wanda. If Gerry were an actress, a tennis star or a famous guitar banger, no one would mind if she put her prestige behind miracle toilet-bowl cleaners and remedies for the heartbreak of psoriasis--at least if she dropped all the piety about women's choices and just rolled up her sleeves and sold the stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Pitching Motherhood and Pepsi | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

...Crimson came right back, riding excellent front-line blocking to a 15-4 second game victory. From then on, though, it was pure heartbreak for the spikers...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Unheralded E. Nazarene Ambushes Spikers, 3-1 | 10/27/1984 | See Source »

...wonders what the local cornbread tastes like, several regulars offer to go home right that very minute and start baking some up for an early-morning delivery. The crowd has reached full pitch, chorusing stanzas celebrating happy American vistas-I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover-and heartbreak-The Way We Were-and bittersweet hope. After all these years, I Could Have Danced All Night still prompts the certainty that Someday My Prince Will Come, perhaps no later than Tomorrow, and from then on it will be Always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Alabama: Isn't It Romantic? | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

...were to try to speak to them and say, "You're just a part of a pattern I've watched for ten years, they'd tell me it's none of my business, and they'd be right. When the affair breaks up, maybe they just feel the normal heartbreak over the end of a love affair, but I get so angry seeing the same pattern over and over again...

Author: By Amy. E. Schwartz, | Title: Clearing Up the Harassment Mystique | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

...never stopped studying dance, and her first heartbreak in life came when she grew too tall for the title role in the Washington School of Ballet production of Cinderella. On the advice of her teachers, Shirley at 16 shifted to musical comedy and traveled to New York City where she tried out for a production of Oklahoma! that toured the boroughs. She was cast as the center postcard girl in the ballet by a director who addressed her as, "Hey! You with the legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Year Of Her Lives | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

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