Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...films and teaching aids widely used in drug-education courses, the council found that 36 were "scientifically unacceptable"-including four of those distributed by the Pentagon and the armed services. Even those rated acceptable contained many inaccuracies. In one of the most popular films. Narcotics: Pit of Despair, for example, the commentary refers to a "pot-needle" (although pot is not injected), thereby inappropriately linking marijuana with heroin. LSD: Insight or Insanity is criticized for asserting flatly that LSD causes chromosome damage and birth defects when, in fact, the possible genetic effects of LSD are still debatable...
...chief is full of despair. He knows that the Cheyennes, the human beings, will "soon walk a road that leads nowhere," and from then on things will go only further downhill, for "a world without human beings has no center...
...captured the heady mood more eloquently than Julius Nyerere, who marked Tanganyika's independence in 1961 by sending an expedition to plant a flag and a torch atop Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak. "It will shine beyond our borders," said Nyerere, "giving hope where there was despair, love where there was hate, and dignity where before there was only humiliation...
...will believe it has ended only when the great, greasy, Victorian city hall turns into an opera house and ward leaders become crusaders for ecology. As my grandmother used to say (she, like Mr. Kenny, had her own little adage): "We live in hope and we die in despair...
...core rots, the whole apple will rot." Or as John Lindsay puts it: "If we cannot move forward in the cities, we will move backward in America. If we fail now, the cost will far outweigh today's financial deficits. They will be measured in despair, in hatred, in bitterness and in strife...