Word: heartsick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dusty, backlands Brazilian hamlet of Estaçäo de Santa Barbara was just a whistle stop on the Paulista Railroad until two foreigners arrived there in 1868. The foreigners were Colonel William H. Norris and his son Robert, unreconstructed U.S. rebels from Oglethorpe, Ga. Heartsick at the South's defeat, they had listened with interest to tales of Brazil, a vast country where slavery was still a respected institution and a gentleman planter could work his lands in peace and dignity...
...must be sold for whatever price the racketeering army men may offer. Communist currency is confiscated. The wheaten cakes are broken by inspectors looking for concealed opium. Then the authorities hustle the travelers on to rugged refugee trains-a sort of slow-moving human cattle car jampacked with unwashed, heartsick bodies...
...they did last week. At the General Assembly of U.N. another Secretary of State, George Marshall, rose to launch a new debate on the course of history. The Soviets' Andrei Vishinsky answered him and (said the New York Times) "his vehemence left many of his listeners stunned and heartsick" (see INTERNATIONAL...
...program of soothing preachments to the heartsick (sponsored by Carter's Little Liver Pills, and Arrid), now running five afternoons a week on Mutual (1:45 p.m. E.W.T.), was roundly denounced by a few prominent social workers...
...military experience in disesteem. The crowning blow comes when sharp young men of the new Army jump the gun in training maneuvers and capture him, boiling red and boiling mad, in a Turkish bath, hours before the sharo battle was supposed to begin. Reluctant and heartsick, he begins at last to understand the one thing the movie tries to teach Blimp, or to show him inadequate in: the idea that the code that has ruled his life is a suicidal anachronism in a world threatened by global gangsters...