Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Residence in the North caused me almost to despair of ever hoping for the Northern whites to understand the attitude of Southern whites toward Negroes. The unfortunate statement referred to tends, in my opinion, to further the misconception...
...Charles Higham (Britain's Bruce Barton): "Perhaps I am too optimistic about Britain, but I don't despair. France and the United States have most of the gold in the world divided between them. What we have left is our character and our credit. Now our credit is imperiled...
...little girl who has managed to insinuate herself into a bigger children's game is discovered and sent to bed by her parents, dismays them by her despair...
...women asleep one night last week in the Pittsburgh dormitories of the Little Sisters of the Poor suddenly broke off into gags, coughs, smoke-stifled cries. Fire billowed up through the peaked roof of the Catholic home. Its glare lighted wrinkled faces twisted with fear and despair. Crippled old men thumped their canes on the floor for help. Aged women forgot their slippers and wrappers as the black-robed nuns herded them into a crawling, shuffling line down the rickety fire escapes. Querulous prayers rose in the darkness to blend with hysterical shrieks. With smoke and fire swirling about...
Fall's last few days as a free man were not happy. Clad in pajamas, his face covered with a white stubble, a bottle of strychnine (heart stimulant) beside him, he spent his time in a big arm chair while the women of his household moaned their despair. He chewed an old cigar stump as he told newsmen: "I'll go through with it but it may get me down. It's a relief to have it all settled. I am an innocent man being persecuted. Oh yes, I have many friends in Santa...