Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...death. "I do not die to preserve my honor, since I deny that my honor is at stake, and I challenge the jurisdiction of my judge. Nor do I die out of desperation. . . . You know nothing at all about defeat if you think there is room in it for despair. . . . "Piloting now my plane, I feel no love; but if this evening something is revealed to me, it will be because I shall have carried my heavy stones towards the building of the invisible structure. I am preparing a celebration. . . . There is nothing that I may expect of the hazard...
Nelson went into conference with himself. Perhaps he prayed. He had reason to: the Truman committee's report brought in evidence of such frightful all-around bungling-some of it involving himself-as to make lesser men despair of democracy. By & large the report was sound and thorough, though its value was lessened by the sensational and politically tinged charges made by Senator Truman in his summary of it to the Senate. The Missourian, perhaps out of his anxiety to get a new $100,000 appropriation to continue his probe, weakened his own work by resorting to claptrap generalizations...
...despair, brave Norwegians! Your land shall be cleansed, not only from the invader, but from the filthy quislings who are his tools...
...over-all blueprint, after a certain amount of study, and turn into a pressure group for their own beliefs: Harvard has had some particularly illuminating experience with pressure groups. They fall to pieces after a flashy start; they dissolve when their small aims are accomplished or when they despair of their big aims; or the members part at a political fork in the road. Definitely, the Post-War Council must avoid over-organization; it must preserve its balance and entertain all viewpoints. The second danger is that the flame of the idea will be confined to Harvard; that the committees...
Moderator William Davis and Vice Moderator Elbert Thomas, Senator from Utah, had gone to Mr. Roosevelt in despair. There were three points, they reported, on which all hands would agree: 1) no strikes or lockouts for the duration; 2) settlement of all disputes through step-by-step conciliation, mediation, arbitration; 3) creation of a War Labor Board to handle the disputes. But management wanted a fourth point: no further discussion of the closed shop until the war 'is over. Labor wanted to discuss nothing else...