Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese are not being treated with brutality, but every step provided by the surrender terms, no matter how harsh, is being enforced. Their humiliation, their despair, and the hardships which they face cannot be overestimated...
...months, doctors worked on Al's eyes without much result and without much hope, while friends, without much result or much hope either, worked to renew his will to live. Pride, bitterness, fury, self-pity, despair engulfed...
...Fear and despair gripped the Japanese nation. Over Hiroshima's "most awesome" destruction, Radio Tokyo moaned: "Diabolic weapon. . . . The corpses are too numerous to be counted. . . . Practically all living things, human and animals, were literally seared to death...
...Wolfboro Daily Bugle: Ernie Hyne's recent defection from the ranks of the bachelors brings our class average up to 19 percent, not quite the 60 per cent once predicted. Thus far there have been no announced contributions to the figure of "nine-tenths per family." Don't despair yet, Professor Hanson...
...call President Conant "Rheinhardt". . . . Nevertheless, it was impossible for him to find anyone whom he could call a friend. The one attempt he had made at approaching the man across the hall had been coldly, yet courtesouly, rebuffed with a short "Have we been introduced?" . . . The youth began to despair of ever making the slightest dent in campus affairs or being elected to the Swift Custard Institute of 1776." --Yale News Digest...