Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...look into the eager, happy faces of anxious relatives and patients who have just read that streptomycin is practically a sure cure for tuberculosis, explain as gently as possible that the wonder drug has its limitations and is unsuitable for their particular sufferer, and watch hope change into sickening despair, can attest to the damage done by overenthusiastic writing on such topics...
...Thomas Masaryk, was by far the best of the little states. It was not good enough. Hitler accurately took its measure-and the measure of the great nations. Before Munich, Hitler had screamed: "Benes ... In that name is concentrated all that which today moves millions, which causes them to despair or fills them with a fanatical resolution. The decision now lies in his hands: Peace or War." Benes thought so, too. Later he wrote: "I had to decide whether to provoke the war or not . . ." He chose not to. Once again he became an exile...
...statue looks down at the idle harbor. It is Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Holland's great governor of the East Indies, who had pushed into Java to found an empire. Graven on the base of the monument, for Dutchmen to read, is his terse motto: "Desespereert niet" (Do not despair...
...Dutch do not despair, but they know that unless the German and Indonesian trades are restored or replaced, the fate of Hoorn may become the fate of the whole nation. The symbol of Dutch confidence is Juliana...
When one of his debt-ridden colleagues had hanged himself, Scobie had insisted to the local priest that this suicide might be forgiven because, being a non-Catholic, the man did not know what he was doing. "If you or I did it, it would be despair-I grant you anything with us. We'd be damned, all right, because we know, but he doesn't know a thing." Scobie believed that his own suicide would eternally damn him-shut him off forever from the presence...