Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...saved" by plastic surgery. At eight U.S. Army plastic surgery centers, surgeons used new grafting methods (given names like "pincushion flap," "bridge flap") to clothe blasted legs with new flesh, and reduced amputations almost to nil. Said Surgeon Pick: "We are in a great transition from the surgery of despair to the surgery of repair...
...Left Bank Hotel Montalembert, where he has rewritten his play Twilight Bar (a flop in the U.S., it never reached Broadway) for a Fans performance. He refuses to identify himself as a Zionist, says he doesn't approve of terrorism but can understand the Jews' bitterness and despair. To write Thieves in the Night he drew on two years of banging around in the Near East (20 years ago) as a correspondent for a German paper. He took out Palestine citizenship then, spent nine months in Jewish communes in Palestine last year as a refresher. Says...
...monsoon was coming and the jungle air was saturated with the all-pervading damp, and with a sense of disaster. On a winding, roller-coaster trail hurried a pitiful file of refugees, fleeing from destruction, despair and defeat. At the head of the line, setting the pace with a brisk 105 steps to the minute, trudged a slight, bespectacled old man wearing a World War I campaign hat. Malaria, cholera, the heat and exhaustion had plucked younger men from the line, but Uncle Joe, then 59, never faltered. He refused to ride one of the caravan's few mules...
...longer realistic, I am fully convinced, to talk about Europe's recovery. The old Europe will not, cannot recover. It has been destroyed. Most of its people will live, for all the rest of this generation, in misery and fear. They are becoming creatures of despair or apathy or desperation. If the First Atomic War then follows to keep the Communists from unifying the Continent, the desolation will persist for many generations. And if the riches of America are finally exhausted in that struggle, the America we know can hardly survive...
...vast quivering mass of tormented, hungry, careworn and bewildered human beings gaze on the ruins of their cities and scan the dark horizon for the approach of some new peril, tyranny or terror. Among the victors there is a babel of voices, among the vanquished a sullen silence of despair...