Word: despairful
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Experts say children directly involved in the tragedy are likely to experience flashbacks, intense grief and despair. If kids are unable to process the event emotionally, psychologists look for a delayed stress response. Parents and teachers should watch for anxiety, difficulty concentrating, aggressive behavior or withdrawal, stomachaches, headaches and sleeplessness. Regressive behaviors might surface--children sleeping in their parents' bed or with the lights on. Phobias might appear--about airplanes, for instance, or tall buildings. Post-traumatic stress disorder, the most severe form of delayed stress, can occur years later. Similar symptoms, only more intense and longer lasting, require intensive...
...were vibrant last Wednesday night. The band was strong and proud through the fear that lingered behind their lyrics. Though their words teetered on the brink of despair, they walked confidently through that valley of death...
...after subjecting America to the biggest terrorist strike in world history - and at a time when Americans are in the grip of an anthrax panic that has even shut down part of their government - bin Laden may be trying to paint himself as invincible in order to deepen the despair of his enemies and rally his supporters...
...mind wandered through a haze of despair that afternoon as I half-listened to the vigil on the steps of Memorial Church. All I heard were sounds—the words didn’t matter much. At some point, I realized that President Lawrence H. Summers was speaking. His tone was constant, but his rhythm was broken. Each word, it seemed, struggled to find a breath that could carry it. There was reluctance in his voice, gravity in his stance and humanity in his hesitation. There were no words for that day, and I think he realized...
...ultimate horror, the phrase of the moment is not "weapons of mass destruction" but "weapons of mass effect." The planes that flew into the World Trade Center were just such weapons. They were "conventional," in a sense, but designed to cause great loss of life and spread chaos and despair. The hijackers didn't need sophisticated technology. Nor may their successors. The East Coast power grid, for example, has less than half a dozen key switching points. Six truck bombs, packed with nothing more sophisticated than the fertilizer that blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City...