Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chelsea helped me to feel who I am, gave me confidence, made me angry, drew me close to people, caused me to hate, gave me energy, radicalized me, taught me independence, helped me to decide to leave school, and ultimately sent me on a 3000-mile flight from the despair and discouragement of being involved in struggle with poor Chelsea women. For a year I tried to argue, pressure, cajole, encourage them out of their defeatism; at the end of the year I joined them...
...speak was crushed so was my right to hear them. I asked myself where I might find redress; I who have no organized mob to support me and no ready means to defend my rights with force. When unchecked power raises its fist to smash my liberties, must I despair...
White House aides sometimes despair that his more human qualities and his executive strengths simply do not get across to the people. Says Attorney General John Mitchell: "People do not see the President for what he really is or see what he is really doing. He is the most misunderstood and underestimated President." As Nixon knows, that "misunderstanding" is liable to become more and more politically dangerous to him as 1972 approaches...
...British diplomats paid a brief official call on imprisoned Reuters Correspondent Anthony Grey in Peking. At that point, Grey had spent 466 days in isolation as a hostage. His visitors left, deeply shaken by his apparent despair. Said one, afterward: "He lives in a void...
...years later, as they awaken to find Radcliffe giving more and more of herself to Harvard, many Radcliffe students are viewing the work of their trustees-the so-called "non-merger" merger-with a blend of suspicion, anger, and despair...