Word: despairing
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Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci last night endorsed ex-Vice President Walter J. Mondale for the 1984 Democratic nomination for president, saying he is "convinced that Mondale will lift the American people out of the sense of despair into which they have faller...
...ensuing days press reports would play up the fact that a seventeen year-old Brazilian girl had slit her wrists in despair and that three elderly Brazilians liens had suffered heart attacks at the moment of Rossi's clincher. Soccer, it was duly noted, was a life-or-death matter in much of the world, especially in Latin American and Europe...
Balancing Brazil's despair was Italy's jubilation. Pandemonium erupted throughout the nation. In Rome teenagers races, toward Trevi Fountain following the final gun. According to officials reports, seven seconds after the game had ended the first fans had already reached the fountain. They jumped in fully clothed and joyously refused to be fished out by surrounding policemen...
Reagan's philosophies seemed destined to provoke a new brand of despair among Washington regulars. With telling prescience. Garry Trudeau last year penned several sketches of a distraught EPA employee whose premonitions of policy reversals sent him scurrying to the narrow ledge outside his office window. The scene could have transpired equally well at any number of federal agencies, such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or the Department of Education...
...might be easy to despair of justice for American Blacks anytime soon, especially in light of the way students seem to shrug off "That stuff." The challenge--which should not be confined to Black History Month, although that might be a good place to start--is to preserve at least the truth of American history. Who knows? People might even start working for systemic change...