Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hussein's orders were terse. The new government was "to act immediately to undo hostile planning and restore matters as they should be." "Hostile forces," the King added, had "undermined national unity, shaken the armed forces, dynamited their military spirit and discipline, and created a state of despair." At Majali's command, the Jordanian army was soon moving tanks and artillery into Amman...
...father's exhilaration and hope. Her mother's pain. Her own despair. Are all behind Maria. She is so much the anesthetist's victim that her only sense of being alive comes from "the physical flash of walking in and out of places, the temperature shock, the hot wind blowing outside, the heavy frigid air inside...
...despair of their handlers, the boys have a habit of drifting away whenever potential interviewers show up. When actually forced by Promoter Bill Graham or Marcum to meet journalists, they become as uncommunicatively polite as children who have been ordered to be nice to the visiting preacher. Carlos, who is designated "leader" only because the musicians' union insisted that the group had to have a leader, will not turn up for a press conference at all. One reason may be the group's abhorrence of the common journalistic practice of putting labels on things-especially the tag Latin...
DIARY OF A MAN IN DESPAIR by Friedrich Percyval Reck-Malleczewen. 219 pages. Macmillan...
...world was at hand. And like Dostoevsky's "underground man," Reck spat his hatred and isolation into the face of history. He had no way of knowing that it is an ironic history. Like a classical Fury giving birth to poetic justice, Diary of a Man in Despair pursues ex-Nazi Albert Speer's Inside the Third Reich into English (TIME, Sept...