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Word: despairs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pictures featuring Eddie Brakcen are always anticipated with a vague premonition of dismay. They are attended with little comfort, and leave a feeling of general despair afterwards. In view of this, why does anybody ever go to pictures featuring Eddie Bracken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 12/4/1945 | See Source »

...sizable group of followers down. He serves up a bitter salad of clever preciosity and engaging self-pity: a collection of notes about love, art and religion jotted down while he was on fire-watching duty. Many a highbrow will not see the woods of "Palinurus' " neurotic despair for the trees of his precise and sometimes witty prose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent Non-Fiction, Nov. 5, 1945 | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

Their married life was not a happy one. Aurore soon became pregnant and spent most of her time alone in bed, sick with nervous despair and turning pale at sight of her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Always a Woman | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

...years, through hope and despair, Chiang had led China's national revolution. For him, and for China, it had not been an easy revolution, nor a polite one. Now again the vision was bright. Chiang's China stood within sight of its destiny: one mind, one goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: One Goal | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

...more, and then told its history. A Jewish friend of his in Nice, hunted by the Gestapo, had written it three years before, had left it with a publisher, then fled to the Alpes-Maritimes to join a band of the Maquis. Its title reflected its composer's despair: C'est Fini (It Is Finished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: C'est Fini | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

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