Word: despairing
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...Cocaine Coup. One of his first acts was to release drug mafiosos from jail. He proceeded to have the police records of cocaine traffickers destroyed and to punish those who disagreed with his policy. His army meanwhile pocketed millions of dollars in bribes and payoffs from drug dealers. In despair, local U.S. drug enforcers closed their office. As soon as Siles brought back democracy in 1982, however, the fight against drugs resumed. The DEA reopened its office and President Reagan appointed Corr, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotic Matters, as ambassador. Ten months after taking office...
...people's aspirations for freedom and democracy have done it all," and called for unification of the opposition parties. Said Kim Young Sam, who was released from house arrest on Wednesday: "The people are sick and tired of it all. South Korea today has too many causes for despair to be mentally and economically at ease." He also paid special tribute to the "student power" that had helped the N.K.D.P. to its solid showing. A day later, he was again restricted to his home as he was about to visit Kim Dae Jung, who has been under house arrest since...
...solve. Not only does it break the emotional tone of the film and make the viewer think, but it leaves the viewer with half-developed food for thought. A far more appropriate ending would have been Orwell's final gunshot, the final chord in a symphony of destruction and despair, which would have kept alive the pathos that otherwise invigortates the film...
...good thing about this film though, is that you don't notice its many flaws until you leave the theatre. The film bullies you in the same way the O'Brien bullies Winston, breaking down your resistance and forcing you to despair. When Winston cracks under the threat of the rat cage and screams "Do to Julia," the actual sound of the cry sends shivers up your spine in a way that mere printed words cannot...
...didn't ask for special programs for blacks," said Woodson. "That's patronizing." As for the absence of N.A.A.C.P. and National Urban League leaders from the meeting, Woodson contended, "Other groups say that all of our problems started with Ronald Reagan. They just recite the same old litany of despair...