Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York State gained national attention and considerable imitation when it first led out stiffly against Crime with its famed Baumes Laws. These severe penal statutes overcrowded the state's prisons with life-term felons, helped breed the fierce despair among herded inmates which fired last year's deadly riots at Auburn and Dannemora (TIME...
...camp was so badly managed he had to run it himself, his legs felt dead. Just before the fight Regan, again drunk, went to Coke's dressing room and told him who his wife's lover was. Coke went out to meet defeat with nothing but despair in his heart. For eight rounds he went hammer & tongs, batted O'Keefe all around the ring, couldn't knock him out. In the ninth round he knew it was all over. ". . . Something reached out of the darkness and belted him on the jaw. He felt the canvas again...