Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the Army is in any sense "Marxist"; on the contrary, it is violently anti-Russian and antiCommunist. But Japan's great mass of humble soldiers and many of their officers are sprung from the Japanese peasant class, the class mercilessly ground down to starvation wages and despair by entrenched Japanese middlemen ; the agglomerations of Capital held by octopus-like "family corporations"; and, lastly, by the amazing Japanese speculator, price-chiseler and profiteer who for sheer ingenious rapacity is in a class by himself...
...fine arts to history; consequently she is forced to use the facilities of both the museum and library for her research. The problem arises when fatally beautiful Gertrude falls in love with Reggie Burlingame, young fine arts instructor and playboy, while at the same time she has become the despair of poor but honest Gregory P. Grupp, assistant at the delivery desk in the library. With telling power the author depicts the struggle that tears the heart of the girl when Leap Year arrives and she knows she must ask one or the other for good and all. With intense...
...much even for the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune, which lashed out: "To snap an informal photograph of the President at the moment that he happens to be rubbing his nose and then to publish it over captions implying that the attitude reveals weariness of spirit, despair or silence under attack is as flagrant a piece of misreporting as it would be to distort the clear meaning of his reply to a press-conference question...
...when one day ashore in Tahiti a drunken white man picked a fight with him. Terangi broke the boozer's jaw, was sentenced to six months in jail. Because he could not stand confinement and kept breaking out, his original sentence was soon stretched to six years. In despair, Terangi escaped once more, inadvertently killing a guard who was in his way. That meant a life-sentence...
...affiliate of Columbia Gas & Electric, and Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. This latter company was the major operating unit for Frank P. Parish's famed Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co., which in 1930 thousands of Market speculators referred to as Mo-Kan, at first with affection, later with despair. Promoter Parish planned to pipe natural gas from Amarillo, Tex. to Indianapolis, a distance of some 1,250 miles. Since pipe lines cost! anywhere from $22,000 to $40,000 a mile, Mr. Parish had on his hands a most ambitious undertaking. Running out of funds before his line...