Word: heartbroken
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...over watched their screens in horrified fascination as their Governor tormented his legislature and himself. From Washington sped Earl's nephew, U.S. Senator Russell Long. Trying to save the tottering Long regime, Russell Long went before the legislature in Baton Rouge to explain his uncle's illness. Heartbroken, Earl Long's wife tried to get her husband to rest quietly. Turning on her, he accused her and Russell Long of conspiring with his enemies. He became violent, had to be locked in his room. There was talk that he threw empty bottles through his window that night...
...Britons in his service and planting shrubs on the fairways and greens of the golf course used by the sahibs, which was on his property. But the romance faltered, and Lydia Hill, wearing a large diamond ring, returned to London and was killed in the blitz. "I am heartbroken," said the Sultan, who had followed her to Britain. A few days later he met reddish-blonde Rumanian Marcella Mendl and married her, explaining: "It was love at first sight...
...Blanche DuBois was looking for, "a cleft in the rock of the world." She seems to find it with a Brazilian diplomat named José Ybarra-Jaeger, but a scandal of which Holly is innocent breaks over her blonde head and Ybarra-Jaeger checks out. In that heartbroken moment she is defenseless and touching. " 'But oh gee, golly goddamn,' she said, jamming a fist into her mouth like a bawling baby, I did love...
...which to thread his way back out of the maze. On the way home to Athens, Theseus puzzlingly abandons Ariadne on the island of Naxos. He also fails to change the ship's sails from black to white, so that his father, King Aigeus, thinking Theseus dead, plunges heartbroken to his own death from a high cliff...
...Sperling's wife and son: "I wish it could have been me, instead of he, who died." Her pastor called to pray with her; a psychiatrist chatted with her for an hour and concluded: "I guess it amounts to the fact that there are two Christine Nystroms." Heartbroken and haggard, Fred Nystrom could only ponder the lives that Mount Vernon's model girl had mangled...