Word: despairful
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...Army in Japan and was sentenced to 30 days in jail. He left prison two weeks ago. In this special Time report, Jenkins, who has seen things in secretive North Korea that only a few Westerners have experienced, tells his story. It's a tale of despair and regret, redemption and love...
...says. " 'I just want to know, I promise I won't be mad' is the sentence everyone has learned not to answer by the time they're 15. But men are obsessed with asking that question and with getting an answer to it. And, of course, that way lies despair...
Gannon and Maasdorp, impressively, didn’t show it. No tears were explicitly shed. In their place, most people might have cried. At one point, I even thought that I might have if I was in their shoes. Not out of total despair, mind you; far, far from it. Instead, just like graduation, just like the end of one part of your life, this game was the end of a significant chapter in a story...
...emotional route of Kerry's day passed Bush's somewhere halfway, traveling from wild hope to stunned despair. After one last dawn campaign visit, a triple-witching photo op on the Iowa-Wisconsin-Minnesota border, Kerry flew back to Boston for his ritual Election Day lunch at the Union Oyster House. Superstitious, he wore his lucky Red Sox cap, carried an Ohio buckeye in one pocket and a clover in the other and refused to let his speechwriters work on election-night speeches of any flavor. But he wasn't relying entirely on voodoo. He spent the afternoon doing satellite...
...backed John Kerry on Nov. 2. I did so reluctantly but out of despair that the incompetence in Iraq was irreparable under President George W. Bush. At home, I was dismayed by the President's appalling fiscal record and by his catering to the most extreme elements of the religious right. I believed it was vital to hold him to account for his obvious failings. And the campaign helped do that. If it weren't for the last few months, Bush might still believe that he had conducted a flawless war and that the country was overwhelmingly behind him. After...