Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statue designed To honor the hero whose cry of alarm Aroused every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm. Alas! No statue now graces Copley Square. 'Tis enough to make even an angel swear, But being only human I refuse to despair. And I hope that means will be found somewhere So after the lapse of many a year Due honor be paid to Paul Revere...
...Tragic Era had been for Reconstruction. But their prophecies and backward looks combined to give the raw material that would enable future historians to characterize that decade-a purgatorial period that followed a fool's paradise, a time of confusion and panic, of scrimping, self-pity, despair, of painful reform of the social system, a time when Al Capone and Richard Whitney at last went to jail and many a liberal as stubborn as George Norris at last got a hearing-a time, above all. when suspicion flourished as wildly as had the speculative fever in the days before...
...diseased hypothalamus may not only cause manic-depressive psychoses (alternating fits of madness and despair) but also less common episodes of insanity. One 20-year-old patient, with a diseased hypothalamus, "sometimes on laughing . . . experiences a sensation of darkness coming from the back to the front of the head, followed by a sudden falling. . . . She also has periods of enforced immobilization during which she can't lift a hand by will, nor move a foot, nor speak. Emotion, triggering morbid sleep, put one of my patients in an impossible position when he suddenly slept with snores on kissing...