Word: heartbreaking
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...winter in its stride, reminding itself that this was the way the winters used to be in the good old days. But in the South, where the good old days used to be warm and balmy, the winter of the big freeze would be long remembered in terms of heartbreak and heavy losses...
...tinbasher" in a metal-box factory. He served for a time as a swimming-pool attendant on the Mauretania ("I noticed that most of those rich necks also carried plenty of wrinkles"), spent his layovers in Manhattan plunking coin after coin into the jukeboxes to hear Elvis Presley sing Heartbreak Hotel. When Tommy retired from the sea, he bought a guitar and sang for his meals in a succession of sleazy Soho clubs. British Songwriter Lionel Bart heard him, collaborated with him on Rock with the Caveman and helped turn him into a teen-age National Trust...
...Army, which had hoped to shave off 50,000 men without touching the 17 divisions currently authorized, grimly admitted that it could not. As a result, the 2nd Infantry Division, which in three wars fought conspicuously at Chateau-Thierry, Saint-Lô and Heartbreak Ridge, will be deactivated, replaced on garrison duty in Alaska by one of the Army's smaller, streamlined new battle groups. ¶ The Army announced that 18 antiaircraft artillery battalions will be closed out, 15,000 civilian employees dropped, 16 depots, arsenals or other service facilities shut down. Among the casualties: Murphy Army Hospital...
Threats & Heartbreak. The subcommittee turned as purple as the magnolia blossoms on the Mall. Snorted Missouri Democrat Clarence Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee (who is well equipped to snort): "He is attempting to sandbag us with threats...
Arcularis speaks to her: "How beautiful you were, Mother--how beautiful you are! ... And, least of all, what I learned in that moment of icy heartbreak--no, I wouldn't have wanted to miss that. For isn't that the very thing we were put here to learn? ...--if we know that, and can bear it, we know everything. Wonderful, that moment, when the absolute zero invades the soul, but as if with the soul's permission: when you see, in a single instant, no matter whether it comes early or late, what a poor, blind, broken trifle of suffering...