Word: heartsickness
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...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...
...island fortress of Zawi-Re in Lower Egypt. When this volume opens, Joseph is a prisoner, brooding on the wreckage of his life and the mystery of Egypt, while a boat hustles him off to jail through the bustle of Egypt's busiest highway, the Nile. Ashamed, defeated, heartsick, and yet never without a mild, detached humor and a powerful conviction of future triumph, Joseph thinks how much this imprisonment is like his first descent into the pit when his brothers stole his coat of many colors...
...west are Spanish Morocco, the Strait of Gibraltar, the sullen, hungry, heartsick land of Spain, where the corpulent Caudillo Franco balances sympathy against expediency, and ponders how he can best save his moth-eaten skin...
...only if the King were thrown out. A Regency which skipped Crown Prince Umberto and alighted on the six-year-old Prince of Naples might be acceptable, he said, pending the day when all of Italy could decide on a monarchical or republican government. But what the beaten and heartsick people of Italy needed most of all, said Sforza, was at least one dynamic and truly democratic act that would fan the flames of hope and national pride. That act, he plainly implied, was abdication...
...heartsick today to hear that my beautiful English woollens went to the bottom of the Atlantic. Shall have to choose other beauties from those that have safely arrived and remember how small my loss is compared to other people's. The same thing happened to my sweaters six months ago. Glad I was not planning on making any sweaters this season...