Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe this summer, and for a long time to come, will be too wartorn, too weak, too submissive, too morally bankrupt and too chaotic to stand on its own feet. Democracy must be encouraged and preserved-if necessary against a background of power. Or are we ready to despair and to give Europe over to the Titos...
...doubt the defeated faction should have slipped quietly away. For, like people, governments wish that former friends, whom for one reason or another they have injured, would drop away tactfully. But the London Poles had always been stiff-necked. Perhaps it was political despair, perhaps it was the habit of authority, perhaps it was old-fashioned love of country, which new-fashioned love of class was subtly supplanting through Europe, but the defeated government refused to fold up quietly. It denied that the free elections promised soon by the Warsaw Government would be free in a country governed behind...
...mourning his passing. The few will be the Nazi Party's fanatic core who still believe in Naziism, and for that belief and for the sake of their own lives fight on. A growing majority of Germans, however, are looking on Adolf Hitler today with bitterness and angry despair as the man who gambled them and their lives away...
...have suffered a terrible loss. The soldier in Paris said he was going back into the lines with the heaviest heart of his war. Doomed men in Berlin snickered at the passing of the warmonger. Around us were voices that choked with incredulity. But this is no time for despair...
Leon Henderson probably would recommend more U.S. aid (civilian supplies. gold bullion) to bolster China's economy. Even if his counsel brought China scant immediate relief, it was another sign that hope had replaced despair...