Word: heartsick
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...Blows (French). Director François Truffaut has turned the story of a small boy's desperate attempt to escape from the heartsick world of his parents into a stunning metaphor for modern man trapped in the society he has fashioned...
Desperate, the boy escapes. He runs and runs. At last he reaches the sea. He can go no farther. Bewildered and heartsick, he turns back to face life, society, the audience. And at that instant the camera stops. A life is arrested, an existence fades into the sort of candid camera photograph that can be seen every day in the tabloids...
...Civil War, in which he was outspokenly partisan for the Communist-backed Loyalist forces. At one point he was reproached by Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger for having made the Loyalist situation appear brighter than it was. Recalled he, in his 1946 book, The Education of a Correspondent: "Even then, heartsick and discouraged as I was, something sang inside of me. I, like the Spaniards, had fought my war and lost, but I couldn't be persuaded that I had set too bad an example...
After water and carbon dioxide from automatic extinguishers had put out the fire, the worn-out and heartsick missilemen found the sole survivor: the U.S.'s tiny satellite, intact, thrown out of the nose section of the rocket, broadcasting the signals that were meant to be sent down from space. The U.S. Sputnik sending from the ground was right on frequency: 108 megacycles...
Comes the crackup. One day some bravoes in the neighborhood make sport of Marina on the street in the traditional Mediterranean manner. Heartsick, she runs home and sinks into her young man's arms. As a matter of fact, her knees are so weak with love, or something, that she sinks almost to the floor. Naturally, the young man invites her into the same bushes her mother has been using. Unable to refuse, she moans: "I want...