Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether Count Teleki had committed suicide in despair-perhaps even to arouse his people-because he believed Hungary was about to be completely engulfed by Hitler, or whether he had been killed by the Gestapo lest he initiate an anti-Axis coup d'état like that which took place in Belgrade last fortnight, he died because his policy was fatal. The "tightrope Premier," who had tried to serve Hungary's interests by cooperating with Germany, was not able to make...
...despair, his father put X in a mental hospital. He was diagnosed as a psychopathic personality, but found technically quite sane. So in a few weeks he was released, and instantly the series of wild and apparently aimless folly began again...
...resilient British, to those wonderfully tough-minded folk who saw a kind of victory in the horrible defeat at Dunkirk, there was no call for despair. There was more than ever a call for vigilance and sacrifice. But the British also found reasons to hope that the Battle of Britain might turn for the better...
...limit to the bad effects of a precedent like this, and it mustn't be allowed to go on too long. If something happened to the Memorial Hall clock, would we just let it lie? If the rope on the church-bell broke, would we give up in despair? A University is not made of quitters. The repaired clock would give the Yard a new lease on life, and show the Square that Harvard is still wound...
...MacLeish, with a glance over his shoulder at Authoress Anne Morrow Lindbergh: "The famous woman who assures us in a beautiful and cadenced prose that democracy is old in every country, and that the future like a wave will drown it down, accepts the same alternatives of terror and despair...