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1 to smile but say nothing

1 term of respect for your teacher's wife

1 maternity leave

1 devastating setback

2 slump (in stock market etc)

3 crushing defeat

4 to cause a serious setback

5 to plummet

1 to leave office

2 to leave one's post

1 Louisiana, US state

1 bereaved of one's spouse (literary)

1 profession

2 role (acting)

1 exclamation

2 expletive

1 here and now

2 as things stand

1 subject-predicate construction

1 platform shoes

1 to Westernize

1 display window

1 imperial decree

1 art institute

2 art and drama college

1 Chinese roseheart radish (shinrimei radish), green on the outside, purple-red on the inside, a favorite Beijing vegetable

1 Dianthus superbus

1 vain regrets of old age (idiom)

1 with arms crossed