Word: despairful
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...been increasingly competent provision for the physical health of students. Yet in spite of gymnasiums and compulsory athletics, physical examinations and infirmaries, certain ills continued. Each term some students would "break down" for no apparent reason. The Dean's office would be overcrowded with men whose delinquencies were the despair of their professors. Too many students, hand-picked for scholarship, failed through some hidden cause no physical examination could uncover. Once in a tragic while a student crime brought publicity of an unwelcome kind and awakened in the public mind a distrust of all colleges...
...secrets even though they wouldn’t recognize a secret if it bit them in the codpiece. And both actors telegraph their dumb anxiety with skill: their practiced spontaneity doesn’t seem practiced in the least—every laugh line feels unforced, each note of despair feels natural...
Holding back tears and with his voice breaking, Winthrop Master Stephen P. Rosen told students at the service to “not despair...
...isolated and useless. Katherine, 18, of Brisbane, recalls a childhood spent in her "own little world," not feeling close to either parent, hung up on doing everything perfectly and racked by the fear of getting into trouble. By her final year of high school, she was so filled with despair that she resolved to kill herself. "I had it all planned out," she says. But with just days to spare, Katherine's concerned ancient history teacher steered her toward Barrett. "When I was talking to Paula and doing the program, nothing else mattered," says Katherine. "Compared...
...burial ground in Beijing dedicated to those who have died for their lost causes. A row of 14 unkempt graves lies near a railroad track, a tiny plot of earth too isolated for anyone but petitioners to claim. Some of those buried here had committed suicide out of despair, including one man who last April threw himself in front of a train just meters away from his eventual grave. Others succumbed to disease after living in flimsy shacks through Beijing's frigid winters. "I wonder if their families even know they are buried here," says photographer Bin. "People just come...