Word: despairful
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...last few lines of telephone communication. Even the dozens of Kuwaiti refugees in Saudi Arabia who call home by mobile cellular phone can rarely get through. Citizens and foreign residents must rely on friends and relatives who have escaped the country to bear their message of despair. Although the tide of refugees is drying up as Iraqis reportedly mine the desert roads, each day brings another exhausted traveler on the run with fresh news about life inside Kuwait. As in every war, it is difficult to know if these stories are true. But taken together, the accounts suggest that despite...
...buried last week, yet another child had been fatally shot and three more wounded. The slain children are called mushrooms in street lingo -- as vulnerable as plants underfoot. Their deaths have pushed New Yorkers, already reeling from a daunting inventory of urban ills, to a new depth of despair. "The job of taking back our streets requires an all-out assault on every front," said Mayor David Dinkins. "We must restore confidence and security...
...working out cooperative budget negotiations, seethed at this torching of bipartisan goodwill. Visitors to Michel's office say that when Gingrich pops up breathing fire and smoke on the TV screen, some staff members erupt in groans or laughter while the leader flushes and sometimes shakes his head in despair...
...Liberation Organization still serves as banner and facade, but many Palestinians believe that it is increasingly feckless, corrupt and out of touch. The failures of leadership on either side of the struggle collaborate to create a sense of hopelessness. Hamas, the fundamentalist Islamic movement, feeds handsomely upon the ambient despair...
Rabe's script, though innovative, is flawed. Despair and disillusionment too readily become modern cliches, and should be meted out carefully...