Word: heartbreaking
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Pelorus Jack cleared the jump. Then, riderless, he swung wildly across the track instead of turning the sharp corner. He crowded Heartbreak Hill, the favorite. He tripped Gregalach who won in 1929 and Grakle who won last year. He blundered into six others, knocking them down. He kicked Sea Soldier (a son of Man o'War), the only U. S.-bred horse in the race. When the field gathered itself from the confusion, a scattered line instead of a close cavalcade, the favorites were out of the running. A horse called Forbra, owned by a West-of-England bookmaker...
...lines about his eyes have cut in deeper and those about his mouth have hardened. The round baby-pink face of the 1920's has grown firmer, more mature. Washington has been as cruel to him as to any President in history. And yet somehow, for all the heartbreak that has been his, Mr. Hoover has grown in inner stature. To strangers he may appear a beaten man but his friends marvel at his fortitude and lack of bitterness. Thin-skinned, he has learned to shrug off criticism with a philosophy described as "almost oriental in its calm...
...winter of 1777-78, low ebb of the Revolution, was one of intense hardship and discouragement for General George Washington and his Continental troops encamped at Valley Forge, Pa. The winter of 1930-31, low ebb of the Depression, was one of almost equally intense suffering and heartbreak for President Herbert Hoover and his Republican advisers encamped in Washington. Last week President Hoover went to Valley Forge, now a military park, to deliver a Memorial Day address in which he drew a parallel between his own troubles and General Washington's. President Hoover has never been called a Republican...
...crackle of rifle fire. The man on the pole fell to the ground dead. The Marines deployed, firing whenever a head or a shoulder showed. For two and a half hours the battle kept up. It was a quiet fight. Nicaraguan guerillas dare not waste cartridges. There were long, heartbreak ing silences. Whenever the ambushers shot they made sure of their marks...
...black-&-white type that propaganda likes: all are individual, characteristic, human. Some of them are Dostoievskian, unforgettable: Zavalishin, crafty workman turned executioner, who shoots down hundreds but cannot stick a pig; Grigory, stout old peasant to whom it never occurs to be unfaithful; Edward Lvovitch, who puts his heartbreak into music but cannot pronounce...