Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clothing will be a luxury. Many will die of influenza, pneumonia, tuberculosis, typhus or cholera. Of Europe's 525,000,000 people, some millions, probably never to be counted, will starve. In this second year of World War II Europe will live in the Dark Ages: in bleak despair from dawn to dusk, in blackness from dusk to dawn...
Plump, amiable Editor Hall rises late, always walks by a florist's shop on his way to work, buys a Talisman rose for his buttonhole. Magnificently mustachioed, he drives city editors to despair. They say anybody can walk into Grover Hall's office and persuade him not to run an unpleasant story about a suicide or an automobile smashup. Sometimes he carries a hot news tip around for days without thinking to tell the city desk about...
...university and the church, preserve that dispassionateness can we be saved from the fallacious hopes and needless fears. In religion, at least, only a study of its history can give us the long range view of spiritual and moral processes, which are our best safeguard against disillusionment and despair. We venture to think that, in spite of many valid criticisms of our curriculum, for its archaic and non-contemporary quality our alumni are probably more likely to weather the next few years, and to weather the next few years, and be of greater service to the permanent religious cause, than...
...ancient curse, this poverty in the midst of plenty. For the most ardent meeting-goer, unless he be a Superman or a Mandrake, has no choice but to go to the U.T. in utter despair...
...would want to meet. But after following Linda to New York, he perversely fell in love with a foreign correspondent's wife whose face was ravaged as the result of a chemical explosion, but it became necessary for Linda to leap into a river in despair. Then the doctor had a nervous breakdown. Unable to figure out any way to get the doctor back on the right track the authors at this point decided to send him home to mother. Meanwhile Linda was rescued by an Irish bargeman whose sister was a shoplifter. Since the Irishman seemed...