Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with six other Europeans by the Bolsheviks from "the very middle of Asia," later held in custody in Aqsu. Serafimov had spent a winter in a particularly colorful environment of Asiatic depravity, had fallen in love with a haggard Russian prostitute and, having finally touched the lowest depth of despair and loneliness, had attained a lasting state of grace by strangling a companion fugitive...
People are strange little animals, as you have been told. At different times in different places they are different. Massed at a football up-and-down-the-field, they are one voice--either of solemn despair or of deafening triumph. Applauding Arthur Fiedler or Gypsy Rose Lee, they are like seals chapping their fins madly and nasally honking for more-fish...
...week's end the court of inquiry had decided that busmen should have slower schedules, had not decided about the 7½-hour day. The busmen, however, agreed to vote on these partial findings and Londoners did not despair of being able to bus to the Coronation...
Hope for Hearts. When germs get into the lining of the heart and cause bacterial endocarditis, doctors promptly give up hope because they believe very few patients recover. Last week Dr. Louis Ham-man of Baltimore advised them not to despair in such cases. Reasons: in his autopsy work he frequently sees hearts scarred by infections, such as scarlet fever, incurred years before death...
...conditions are cited which are indispensable to any movement seeking a violent break from established ways; 1) empty stomachs and 2) widespread despair of filling those stomachs by the established ways. "Consideration of the relation of President Roosevelt's proposal to the future of personal liberty must include consideration of the relation of his larger purposes to the avoidance's of those two conditions...