Word: despairing
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...invitation to the Inaugural Ball? Don't despair; Washington will have festivities to suit every taste -- and pocketbook. Some options...
...federal judge declared a state of emergency, which included a state investigation and tightened federal oversight. Discontent among the 5,186 inmates could be summed up in a word: hopelessness. Prisoners, the vast majority of them lifers in a state where a life term means life, blamed their despair on tough parole laws and a dearth of gubernatorial pardons. At risk was a reprise of the chaos that in the early '70s earned Angola the dubious distinction of being the nation's bloodiest prison...
...blast furnace of a nation as it struggled out of feudalism. Sixty years later, TIME invited Anthony Suau to retrace Bourke-White's journey. If her pictures were the positive, his are the negative. The Russia that emerges from Suau's frames is a land of shabbiness and despair -- images of dilapidation that results when sacrifice and suffering are attended only by shattered dreams...
Years of hope end in shabbiness and despair...
...message -- and give her "rubdowns." The agony culminated one evening when her father threw her against the wall, hitting her on the head over and over. He also beat her mother until she fell unconscious to the floor, then he threw Donna Marie out of the house. In despair, she returned and took a loaded revolver from her parents' nightstand. When her father came at her again, she shot him dead. Last February she was found not guilty of first-degree murder by reason of self-defense...