Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was still fear, despair and violent death in the land. At Wilmington, Mass., a 21-year-old ex-soldier killed himself by piping exhaust fumes into an automobile, saw fit to record his last sensations. "Joints feel funny," he scribbled. "Chest filling up fast . . . going...
...mouths. When they repeated to each other (as they often did) that now at last Britain's colonial policy had lumbered to the point where Whitehall really wanted to free India, hope revived. When they reflected (as they often did) that civil war had never been closer, despair reached .its depth. The issue seemed to turn on one man-Mohamed Ali Jinnah. Last week all India watched Jinnah's words and actions...
...June, 1945, after most of his army had faded away, the hunted General proclaimed to his remaining troops: "Do not despair. . . . There is bound to be a war between the western democracies and Russia." He said that "Serbians would rather perish than submit to Tito's command or to Communism." Last week he unwillingly submitted, would surely perish...
...spin wool, with homemade soap and homemade spinning wheel, to finish the winter evenings by the light of a potato-lamp (with its improvised wick set in melted fat in a hollowed-out potato!). The effort is sure to leave him with the greatest indifference toward the "literature of despair...
Rome and the U.S. The Church today must look to the U.S. for food to relieve the hunger and despair which, it well knows, drive angry men to claim their birthright as Cain claimed his. It looks to the U.S. as an example of the form of government which today promises the most for the Church's survival. It looks to the U.S. as an idealistic people who have at last chosen, or been forced, to take their place in international affairs. And it looks to Francis Cardinal Spellman as the practical, idealistic American who can best advise...