Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though beardless adolescents walked among them, they were all gaunt and old beyond their years. In the station's bright light they blinked, like men emerging from a cavern of despair into the sun. They were the lost sons of France, home from the prison camps of Germany, the vanguard of 2,500,000 prisoners of war still shut up in German Stalags and labor camps...
Lucius Beebe, whose sartorial sharpness is the despair of other Manhattan fancy-dressers, got caught with his spats down in Colorado. Returning from a dusty tour of the Pike's Peak country, he started confidently toward a table in Colorado Springs' swank Broadmoor Hotel, was briskly stopped by the headwaiter. The management's firm attitude: Columnist Beebe, in riding clothes, was not suitably dressed for hotel dining...
There are the older men (mostly over 35) who are merely müde, müde, müde (tired, tired, tired) and only ask for Brot, Arbeit, Familie (bread, work, family). Close under the surface of their wooden faces is one emotion: deep, somber despair. All of them-old and young, disillusioned and arrogant-have one concern: "What is going to happen to us after the war?" The question uppermost in their minds: ''Will they turn us over to the Russians...
...Negroes, how unstable was our tenderness, how lacking in genuine passion we were, how void of great hope, how timid our joy, how bare our traditions, how hollow our memories, how lacking we were in those intangible sentiments that bind man to man, and how shallow was even our despair. After I had learned other ways of life I used to brood upon the unconscious irony of those who felt that Negroes led so passional an existence! . . . Whenever I thought of the essential bleakness of black life in America, I knew that Negroes had never been allowed to catch...
...front pages of Miami newspapers not long ago. Ada Forren, the girl in the picture, is 18. She had married her Navy husband just four months before the baby was born; she had no assurance that she would ever see him again. In a childish fit of despair, Ada had given her baby away for adoption. Now she had to go to court to get the baby back. She did. But how would she ever tell her husband...