Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, as last week, there was one bottleneck that really counted: the bottleneck at the White House. There was confusion, despair, individual convictions that less than enough had been planned or done. And there were men who looked at the facts, cried that those facts were all-that the war was already lost...
...patient with schizophrenia or manic-depressive psychosis (alternating fits of madness and despair) is placed on his back on a table. Two electrodes on a forceps-like spring are set firmly on his temples...
Though issued to take effect immediately, the regulations provided 90 days of grace for sale or disposal of properties. Not all radiomen were in utter despair. There was President Roosevelt who has always patted radio's head; and the listeners were get ting a better break than any others in the world. Maybe, with the war and everything, it would all blow over...
Calling the theory that England will shortly be defeated by invasion "a black council of despair," Conant suggested that when invasion of Great Britain is imminent or actually under way, the United States would "finally in a last desperate effort to defend the cause of freedom join our forces with the British fleet...
...despair, Prince Abdul Illah tried the last shot in his locker, a counter-coup which was promptly squelched by the Basra garrison, then lit out for the sanctuary of Trans-Jordan in an R.A.F. plane...