Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their decline began with the election of President Hayes, which, Gideon heard, involved a deal to withdraw the troops from South Carolina and Louisiana. Knowing it was too soon, Gideon appealed to the incumbent Grant. Denied, he returned to Carwell to wait in despair...
...Walls' first crop came in 1936, a year of drought and despair. Iowa was seared by sun and heat. The rivers dried up, the corn wilted, the oats burned into worthlessness. Wall sold the two brood sows for $30 to pay Doc Brinker's bill for delivering Joan, their first baby. Then he went on WPA to earn money for food and interest on the bank loan...
...Despair in the Dark. The second evening of the attack we could not sleep. From over the ridge came the steady crash of mortar shells, the rumbling, ugly sound of artillery, the rippling of Japanese machine-gun fire. Now and again enormous flashes-whether of artillery or ground lightning from summer heat I could not tell-silhouetted the area in red and black...
...very fact that you cry out now amidst carnage and despair against a far-off injustice, and the fact that TIME prints your letter, and the fact that many people will reply, supporting your views, should tell you that our national life, while far from perfect, is still good, still worth your coming back to, still in need of you and your straight thinking...
...word to this world conflict is faith and not despair. . . . Winning the war and winning the peace are one and indivisible. Right now the peacemakers of our time are our sons in uniform, who offered the last full measure. In this war, God's stake is the greatest for liberty and justice. All freedoms are at stake. We shan't win with hate, hate of any man in all the world's wide border. We will win with love, love of liberty, love of home, love of all brave men who will dare...