Word: despairful
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...virtually assured of her going out with him. On the other hand, The Crimson in September, 1950 said, "Jollyups are famous for the 5-2-1 quota; despite the disgruntled look on the girl's face it's usually the men in these affairs who leave the room in despair...
...onetime protege of Vice President Walter Mondale's, who has organized his own Draft Kennedy movement in Minnesota. The group was opposing Carter, Nolan said, "because we feel betrayed. All our hopes and all our aspirations for a better America in 1976 have resulted in disappointment and despair...
Intensely personal columns by other writers make this private man uneasy. "It's a terrible problem examining one's entrails in public," says Baker. John Leonard, also of the New York Times, is a columnist whose bouts with existential despair are on weekly view, with results that range from considerable heroics to embarrassing displays of bad taste. Baker has never exploited his family for material, with the forgivable exception of some memorable columns celebrating the archetypal awfulness of vacation car treks along the New Jersey Turnpike. Now and then he rules out a topic for a while because...
...some of the teaching fellows, the cry for divestiture is juvenile self-indulgence. Perhaps they are tired, or their study of Government leads them to despair of all change. Perhaps the conservative Government Department has socialized them. In any event, they appear to lack a social conscience. It is shameful and sad that teachers of political science at one of the most prestigious Americun universities seem to have lost respect for fundamental American political values: freedom to protest against injustice, equality for all races, democratic decision-making, and social activism. How can such teachers do justice to the American Revolution...
...clearly addressed to a nation poised uneasily for change: "I would like to remember some words of St. Francis of Assisi, which I think are particularly apt at the moment: 'Where there is discord, may we bring harmony; where there is doubt, may we bring faith; where there is despair, may we bring hope.' Now that the election is over, may we get together and strive to serve and strengthen the country...