Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dismay, touched by despair, was spreading in Communist ranks. Communists cannot rally the working class of Western Europe against the Marshall Plan, because many of the Socialist leaders are for the plan. The Polish declaration is an attempt to gain the appearance of having the initiative. In Italy a bloodless civil war has begun. There is no sign that the Reds will be so foolhardy as to start a military civil war. The decorous blue serge suit is still prescribed Communist fashion; but last week the Communists, in effect, unbuttoned the double-breasted coat long enough for the world...
...posed the alternatives. Either the U.S. provides quick help for Europe, he said, or Communism will sweep across the Continent to the Channel. Secretary of State George Marshall and Under Secretary Robert Lovett backed him up with a detailed description of growing Communist strength, and of the deepening despair of Western Europe. Then the discussion began. As recalled by several participants in the meeting, it went somewhat as follows...
...Rival service arms had to be watched for symptoms of credit-grabbing. Above all, callers with something to offer that might help win the war had to be given The Treatment: identified, badged and tirelessly "channeled" from building to building and service to service till they wound up in despair back at Union Station...
Even now a professor emeritus, certainly one who is a professor of physics, should not despair. Every indication warns that in the impending World War III only those who have mastered "the intricacies of research" can become the directors of physical might. Then will the obscure have their recognition, reward and revenge in destroying the humanity they have labored in obscurity to serve. Reader Hull, like any good scientist, must realize that the distant goal has not been made unattainable by the latest development. He and the rest to whom the presidency of Columbia University was the ultimate need merely...
...disturbed" by the moral decay and physical degeneration of French youth. The present was empty and the future bleak. This state of mind was played upon by Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre. Sébille, who is a jolly fellow beneath his solemn surface, reacted sharply against that philosophy of despair. What was "lost in the smoke of the past," he reasoned, had to be "recouped in the fire of the present...