Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seed of Despair. Baffling delays seemed to block the path of De Gaulle's proposed visit to London. The Committee's message to Washington to find out whether the U.S. planned to have a representative at the London discussions had gone unanswered for nearly two weeks. The U.S. had decided not to participate, but the French had no direct word...
...haven't been a straw in our G.I. haystack long enough to have experienced the despair, nor am I qualified to express the sentiments of a veteran campaigner, but for my part portions of "When the Sea Shall Give Up Her Dead . . ." (TIME, April 24) deserve prominence atop an imaginary marble pedestal in our nation's literary hall of fame...
From the heights of my despair I shall tremulously dare, Courageously to kick and squeal...
...Frossia saw a face as flawlessly chiseled as any she had ever imagined, skin and muscle clothing perfect bone work of chin, cheek and forehead. The straight thin nose, the large sherry-colored eyes ... all suggested breeding. Yet the mouth hung loosely, the eyes were twin pools of despair, and now that they were looking at her, something like a sneer crept into them...
...they are saved from complete despair by that very resigned skepticism which through many generations has made them see that whatever the Government, aristocratic or popular-front, German or North American, their life will be the same. . . . They fight over futile things, and they outdo each other in trying to say the last and most hurting word, in increasing the confusion and mistrust...