Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...changing of the social outlook of our people is the greatest Roosevelt achievement. In 1932 our people were filled with despair. Today they are full of confidence and hope...
With increasing despair the Radical Government saw the White Army battle its way within sight of Madrid. To meet the impending crisis Premier Francisco Largo Caballero was appointed "Supreme Chief of the Military Forces of Spain" and Julio Alvarez del Vayo "General Commissioner of War," in a two-way attempt to exercise political control over the Red Militia. As the White offensive rolled nearer & nearer to the capital, Madrid became a city of gloom and darkness. Gas for cooking and heating had been cut off. Places of entertainment closed early. To stir up the inhabitants' flagging spirits notices were...
These spirited messages unfortunately did little to stimulate the government's militia, largely composed of ill-trained, ill-disciplined shoemakers, cabdrivers and waiters who were only prevented from scattering in despair by their officers standing behind them with cocked firearms. At San Martín-de-Val de Inglesias, 7,000 Reds vainly attempted to repulse 1,000 Whites, made it easy for White Generalissimo Francisco Franco's armies to resume their march on Madrid...
...firm of Roosevelt, Farley & Co. entered the 1936 campaign with a machine high-powered, smooth-running, up-to-date. To compete with it, the new firm of Landon & Hamilton inherited a 1932 model apparatus, battered by its last two collisions with the Democratic juggernaut, rusted by inaction and despair. John Hamilton's job came nearer to being one of rebuilding than of repair...
Aware of the despair which her words might cause, Dr. Macklin added: "The belief that cancer is inherited need not be a gloomy one. We can hardly make the picture darker than it is when we tell the public that one of every seven or eight adults will die of cancer. No one person can pay a doctor for a complete examination as to the possibilities of his having all the varieties of cancer that there are. But he can be examined for the more common kinds, and for the type someone else in his family has had. Thus...