Word: heartsick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heartsick Leader Rayburn let antique Adolph Sabath bring up the Housing bill. And again the knife fell, as Republicans Mapes and Wolcott brought figures to show that Housing under this bill would cost taxpayers not $800,000,000 but $4,380,000,000 in the next 60 years. Showman Martin of Massachusetts stepped aside to let a freshman Democrat, handsome young (31) Albert Arnold Gore of Carthage, Tenn. deliver the coup de grace. Gore, who got his law degree from the Nashville Y.M.C.A., roared in his maiden House speech...
...pending, those who voted against the canal received boxes of fine crisp celery from, South Florida. Some who voted for it received telegrams from a Florida hotel man inviting them to be his guests "at any time while in Florida." Closer still was the second vote: 36-to-35. Heartsick Senator Fletcher saw his hopes defeated unless President Roosevelt decided to ignore Congress and go on building the canal with relief money...
...When news of the revolt was brought I was at my summer place playing polo on my private polo field. I immediately went to my father's side in Pizarro Palace in Lima. He told me he was heartsick and discouraged . . . and was already formulating the names of those in a junta who should govern the country. One of the disloyal men in his administration spoke up to him and demanded that he should include his name on the list. I. very peacefully, hit him in the face and took him to the window and threw him out into...