Word: despairful
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...anger and despair, some South Vietnamese turned upon the Americans who were now clearly going to abandon them. ARVN soldiers menaced Westerners in the streets. Terrified crowds of Vietnamese surrounded the U.S. embassy on Thong Nhut Street, begging their old protectors to get them out. Some tried to hand their babies over the wall into the embassy compound. Marines used tear gas and rifle butts to hold off what had become a mob of America's allies. Relays of helicopters began ferrying people out of the compound, evacuating the Americans and many of the Vietnamese who had worked for them...
...alone in desiring this prize; he and other contenders keep meeting at academic conferences and trying to upstage one another. The man they must impress is Arthur Kingfisher, "doyen of the international community of literary theorists," whose approval will bring the award. Unfortunately, the Fisher King is filled with despair "at no longer being able to achieve an erection or an original thought...
Only a few months ago, a Nicaraguan friend, an exSandinista who still speaks their language, said in near despair that the struggle of democrats around the world was doomed by the absence in the West of what he called "democratic militance." The Reagan Doctrine represents a first step toward its restoration...
...many as 200 men were taken behind Israeli lines for further interrogation. When correspondents arrived in Zrariyah, twelve hours after the Israelis had entered the village, bodies still lay in the streets leading into the town. Wailing women milled about in grief and despair. A freshly painted sign on a wall read, in Arabic, THE REVENGE OF THE I.D.F. (for Israel Defense Forces). According to the Israelis, 34 guerrillas had been killed in the raid. + Villagers claimed that only half a dozen of the victims had carried guns...
...manner and his reliable but unspectacular interpretations of the standard repertory caused many to underestimate him. But in 44 years, the longest music directorship in American history, Eugene Ormandy led the Philadelphia Orchestra to a height of tonal splendor that was the joy of his adopted city and the despair of orchestras everywhere else...