Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...essence of our task that we must act with speed! . . . Despair is a fortress which must be carried by storm and cannot be conquered by long siege." Putting on sham speed, the Conference adopted at once an agreement to "reserve . . . during the period of the conference . . . the execution of payments due to the powers participating." In effect this extended the European end of the Hoover Moratorium (which is to expire June 30) for as long as the delegates care to keep the Conference going...
...temple by the priests, and at the same time the virgin breasts of the queen would miraculously begin to give milk. But no such luck befell Balkis, even though, at the priest's request, a god once visited her disguised in human flesh. The priests, in despair, then packed her off to Solomon. Unfortunately she sends lovely Zud, her lady-in-waiting, ahead to salute Solomon. He becomes infatuated with Zud, and Balkis has to win her way by wile. It is no peaceful time in Jerusalem. The Ephraimites revolt, the Shebans attempt to steal the holy...
...callers, calling in despair. Pigsties, postoffices everywhere...
...Gregory Zilboorg, member of the brief Kerensky Government of Russia, asserted that a "death drive" exists in many "if not a majority" of normal individuals. There "must be something about those individuals (within them) that leads them to solve their problems by means of self-inflicted death?something besides despair, financial straits, failing health. . . ." The "death drive," as he interprets it, is very often the result of an unconscious desire to punish oneself severely...
...German literature of the nineteenth century have evoked more interest and more divergent views than Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Swiss poet and writer of Novellen; stylistic craftsman of genius, narrator of great events, delineator of great characters; and at the same time a paradoxical nature that has been the despair of biographers and critics who have tried to bring order out of the conflicting chaos of his life and work, to find reasons for the distance between this unhealthy, corpulent, shy man and the colossal figures of Renaissance, Reformation, and medieval history, who are the subjects...