Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indispensable is an immediate program for the economic rehabilitation of our twelve million unemployed whose morale is shattered and whose allegiance to democracy is tenuous because the hungry and the hopeless fail to see what they are called upon to defend. . . . We rabbis must do more than echo the despair and perplexities of our people. We must bring to them a message of hope, rekindle their faith, inspire them with fortitude and courage...
Like an eel chopped to pieces, fragments of the French Army continued to wriggle and resist all across France last week even after the nation's surrender was signed and sealed in a railroad car at Compiegne (see p. 20). In hate and despair many a Frenchman threw his life away-taking a German or so with him-a week after the war had been lost...
Street Fighting. In its first day the war between Benito Mussolini and the Allies largely took the form of local abuse, sabotage and despair...
...letters of the three years following the war are a record of slow convalescence. In them it becomes clear that the years of silence, of daily absorption in horror, despair and death, contributed incalculably to those continuously illuminated days in 1922 during which Rilke completed the Duino Elegies, those poems through which he felt his existence had been justified...
...later, he suddenly fell into an epileptic fit, had to leave school. After that, every day for 17 years, fits seized him as often as 18 times a day. While his nine brothers and sisters grew up, he clung to his mother, a man-size baby. Last October, in despair, his parents took him to Neurologist Howard Douglas John Fabing of Cincinnati...