Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest. For him the Fascist movement is, wholly and unequivocally, an attempt to preserve Capitalism by violence. To support this view, he has outlined once more the lines along which the class struggle is waged, through "the century of the great hope" to the present period of frustration and despair. It is his thesis that the progressive parties, Labour in England and the Social Democrats in Germany, have been unwilling to face the implications of their own doctrine at the time when that doctrine might most opportunely be materialized...
...last week tended to overshadow these old familiar charges. Right or wrong in his past tactics, he had been quick enough, shrewd enough, dogged enough to squeeze the maximum benefits for his men from NRA. In three short months he had jacked U. M. W. out of disintegration and despair, energized it into the greatest single affiliate of the American Federation of Labor. He was the prime embodiment of Labor resurgent under the New Deal. As such he was prepared to stride into the A. F. of L. convention this week in Washington and take command...
...whole to introduce a rejuvenated college spirit into Dartmouth. After several poor seasons on the gridiron, the diamond and the track, and concurrent with the disillusionment and flight of hope that naturally accompanies a period of economic despair, the college felt that its life-blood was being sapped and its spirit was falling into the doldrums...
...Professor Bohr's reiteration was in connection with his new theory of Complementarity-a dualistic doctrine of despair which holds that all phenomena have two aspects, like the convexity and concavity of a sphere, and that both aspects cannot be true at the same time...
...finally rid himself of his spouse, Dr. Stevens helps the ship's doctor treat a case of infantile paralysis. Her own child contracts the disease and dies before serum can be brought by airplane. She is just about to throw herself out of a window in despair when the janitor scampers in to say that his child has swallowed a safety pin. Pulling it out is what restores Mary Stevens' interest in existence...