Word: despairful
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Sigh then, or frown, but leave (as in despair...
...fixation on short-term, bottom line thinking across the breadth of America," Lear said. "The greatest societal disease of our time is we seem to think that if you're not a winner, you're a total loser. I despair that we won't see a change in TV until, as a nation, we deal with this short term fixation...
...perhaps the most moving part of my evening was finding out what a compassionate guy our president really is. He cares enough to share in the Redskins' jubilation, yet he's sensitive enough to comfort the Dolphins in-the despair. And how considerate of him to share his thoughts with the respective coaches when the entire nation is looking on, rather than wait and speak with them in private...
...enlist in the Army. He was given a medical discharge after 17 months because of attacks of grand mal epilepsy. He married, fathered a son and went back to college, this time in California. His marriage soured, and he returned to Fort Myers, where he sank into alcoholism and despair. Sometime between Oct. 13 and 15, 1973, a woman named Margaret Mears, 68, was raped and beaten to death...
...loves making love, and so she exercises her power in one of the few ways open to a woman in 1920s Germany: by becoming an entrepreneur of lust. Promiscuous as a prancing stud, possessive as any hausfrau, Hanni drives "Fatty" Bolwieser to the twin dominatrices of drink and despair. Called to court, the cuckold testifies to his wife's fidelity while she dallies with two of the village's men on the make. Logically enough, the court later throws Bolwieser in jail-four years, for perjury-and Hanni, the modern woman tired of her little boy lost, sues...