Word: despairing
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...Ignorance and despair were standard treatment for cerebral palsy and other neurological disorders in [the 1940s]," Mr. Goldenson said in a speech at the occasion. "We are here today to dedicate a facility that embodies and inspires hope and commitment. It will be a place to practice science that was unimaginable...
...those fleeting periods of despair, we take the rain too much to heart. A little water is nothing to be truly afraid of; nobody will melt. A change of clothes and a hot drink can take care of most precipitation induced woes...
Clarence Thomas was so distraught during the Anita Hill sexual harassment hearings that he reportedly engaged in a bathroom prayer session and once writhed on the bedroom floor in despair. The info comes from a surprisingly credible source: the semi-contrite memoirs of Thomas's chief political sponsor, Missouri Sen. John Danforth. The politician-minister also confesses he might have gone a little hard on Hill to get Thomas on the bench...
...fleeting. The film has too many slow spots, and its message is laid on with a trowel, but it has a kind of perverse Hollywood glamour. When the camera holds on the gorgeous, thoughtful faces of Marlo Marron and Salma Hayek, beauty becomes truth -- the repository of hope and despair...
...Plaza de Armas, the 44-year-old computer programmer joins a foreigner at a garden bar. Sipping on a fine, aged rum -- a rare treat -- he pours out the familiar Cuban litany of despair. He eats no breakfast or lunch and cannot find milk for his 10-year-old daughter. His car has no gas, his home no electricity. When he walks down Obispo at night, even the cheap tourist souvenirs tantalize him. He sips more rum. "People drink here to an extent you can't imagine," he says. "They don't go to work anymore. There is no hope...