Word: despairing
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...describes himself as a patriot: "It's a date that has a significance like no other day of the year." On April 19, 1775, the Battle of Lexington--the opening salvos in America's Revolutionary War--began. On April 19, 1993, the siege at Waco ended in flames and despair. On April 19, 1995, Richard Wayne Snell, a member of the white supremacist group The Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord, was executed for the murder of a Jewish businessman and a black police officer. And when Timothy McVeigh rented the Ryder truck, he used a forged...
...Despair and Hope...
...grip on popular culture. It is the great international cry-fest, the teariest tear-jerker of them all. Its every laugh is tempered with reminders of the pre-revolutionary tribulations of France's lowest classes; and the jubilation of Valjean's victory over his past is mitigated by the despair of the students' doomed rebellion...
Caren Lyn Manuel, a first-year on leave from Emerson College, plays the adult Eponine flawlessly. Her journey from the Thernadiers inn to the slums of St-Michel is tragic. When she falls for the unsympathetic Marius; the audience feels her despair. Her devastating rendition of "On My Own" rivals Piro as the evening's most spectacular solo...
Many of the highrise tenements used asurban public housingwill soon be replaced by "smaller, more humane" buildings under a new Clinton Administration plan. Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros announced the policy shift today, stating that the projects only lead to "community despair" while public townhouses, smaller apartment buildings and tree-lined streets will result in "community pride." Units in Philadelphia, St. Louis and Atlanta are already slated for demolition over the next two months, while 29 other developments will be replaced over the next year...