Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England. One (Frederick Cooper), a consumptive workman, fled from the inhumanities of a Victorian factory. One (Frederick Valk), a Viennese physician who prediscovered anesthesia, fled from the bigotries of the clergy and of his own profession. All, as the moved journalist hears them out, rebuke themselves and him for despair against whatever odds. The despairing promethean, they assure him, takes nothing of value to his living grave; others-a Darwin, a Pasteur, a Marx, a Nightingale-persist and by slow stages liberate the reluctant world. By morning and story's end, the journalist has recovered his soul, his hope...
...acid flavor, very American, went out of U.S. political life. Bill Borah was a greater orator. But none could surpass Jim Reed in righteous anger or in-as newsmen at the time called it-the "rhinestone rhythm" of his speech. He was the delight of the galleries, the despair and envy of his foes. Woodrow Wilson, often his foe, called him a marplot...
...told, the Army plan-good news as it was to many troops long overseas and beginning to despair even of getting home on furloughs -offered little hope of a sudden, big homeward parade before the successful conclusion of the Pacific...
...acknowledge our defeats but without despair...
...Name Hotel--Dividing the attentions of two Spars three ways, Art Marx, Bob Stewart, and Jim Rafferty had many rounds of mixes. But they soon found that these young ladies were old Navy hands, so they left early in despair...