Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in 1924, when Haya went into his first exile, he told his followers: "Don't despair. I shall come back." This time the Bustamante government and Haya's rightist enemies were determined that he should...
...Dame, he wrote a column about the excellence of the Cadets, even though they were mashed up, and paused in the middle to say "I have just received the awful intelligence that Harvard will play Army next year." Let us not sink, along with Egan, into the depths of despair. Let us be unemotional, and remember that "to hope till Hope creates from its own wreck the thing it contemplates . . . this is alone Life, Joy, Empire, Victory!" That's what Shelley said; translated it means that when you have an offensive team that's "up," anything ought to happen...
Backfield brain Nelson was impressed by the showing of Columbia Saturday. "Like all Lou Little teams, they're good on fundamentals, they're well-drilled, they know what they're doing." But he evinced no despair about Saturday's game, either: "We can beat them...
...Artists. "The English," the Times believes, "are, in fact, a violent and savage race with a faculty beyond all other people of ignoring their neighbors . . . They have a power of poetry which is the despair of all the rest of the world. They produce from time to time personalities transcending ordinary limitations. Then they drive other nations to a frenzy by patronizing these archangels who have come among them, and by indicating that any ordinary Englishman could do better if he liked to take the trouble." Nonetheless, the Englishman "likes to think of himself as a sheep; and so great...
...window disturb him not at all as he sits in his simple room, writing in a hand still firm. A Catholic living in a Catholic retreat, he calls his religion "a matter of sympathy and traditional allegiance, not of philosophy." Says he mischievously: "I believe I am the despair of the nuns here, who hope I'll become pious on my deathbed...