Word: heartbreaking
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...just ten years ago that Elvis Presley signed his contract with RCA Victor, made a few records like Hound Dog and Heartbreak Hotel, and overnight became the rage and outrage of the U.S. A year later, everything from lipsticks to T shirts bore the Presley imprimatur. He made his first movie, and his take from all and sundry was estimated at $1,800,000. Then came two years in the Army to put a damper on Elvis. As an ex-G.I., he was given an ecstatic welcome home by his fans. Since then, practically no one knows anyone...
...congregation. By 785 to 75, with 125 absentee ballots still to be counted, the members voted to secede. After the vote, Father Risley submitted his resignation from the ministry to Stuart on the ground that the church was "embarking upon new canonical requirements which cannot lead to anything but heartbreak and sorrow...
...slow to acknowledge that the arms deal was born in Washington. Said a Bonn spokesman: "A statement on its part in this whole affair was only gradually wrung out of the American Government." Feeling ill-treated on all sides, and with some reason, Erhard told the Bundestag of his heartbreak at world reaction when "we thought we had grounds for hope that one would recognize our sincere attitude in our actions." Mused an asso ciate: "I have never heard the Chancel lor use the word 'sincere' so often as in the past few weeks...
Christmas is usually a time of happiness and joy, but for the Harvard basketball team this Christmas vacation turned into a time of real heartbreak as the varsity dropped both its games in the Kodak College Classic at Rochester...
...DEFINITIVE PIAF (Capitol; 2 LPs) consists of 22 fine performances, including La Vie en Rose and La Goualante de Pauvre Jean. Piaf celebrates the joys of love in a voice already pregnant with sorrow and then suffers gallantly the heartbreak she knew was coming. After all, "without a lover, one is nothing...