Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...displayed any sign of anger. But after six hours of intense talks between the two leaders, Begin had not budged an inch. After a final, hurried handshake, Carter failed even to walk his guest to a waiting limousine. He turned back toward the White House, his shoulders drooping in despair, and shortly afterward declared to a group of Congressmen: "The negotiations are at an end as far as the present time is concerned. I need your help and advice...
Barry Blechman cautioned, however, that the numbers in themselves can exaggerate the Soviet threat. "Their military power is very troubling, and I'm not saying that we should discount it," he explained, "but I certainly wouldn't throw up my hands in despair and say that we will be on the losing end." The U.S. spends a great deal on readiness, for example. "We keep roughly half our strategic submarines at sea at all times, where they can hit their targets, but only about 15% of Soviet subs are on station." he noted...
...friend Emma, a social worker and one of several outsiders visiting the summer paradise, falls periodically into despair over the rootlessness and lovelessness of children she sees professionally, who are the first victims of the decline of old values. Sif Ruud gives a fine portrayal of a manic depressive in this role, and functions as a kind of chorus commenting on the mounting evidence that she is right. One of Katha's daughters awaits the return of a philandering husband, not at all certain he will come back to her or that it will be good if he does...
Dirk Bogarde is the star of Pass-binder's newest, yet unreleased film Despair, an adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel. Though he has worked on more than 30 pictures, he says flatly that working with Fassbinder was "the most enjoyable experience I've ever had in the movies." Director and star understood one another instinctively. "Rainer and Tom Stoppard, the scriptwriter, came down to my house in the south of France to talk about the film," says Bogarde. "After four minutes we knew that we would get along, and I said that I didn...
...edifice overflowed with the sweating faithful who rocked the building with chants for defense and cheers at the mention of His name on that first night. But He lost that battle valiantly to the visitors from the western part of the State. "Do not despair, you masses," He proclaimed. "Frankly, we can't stand now, it's not quite our time. Yet, we bleedeth Crimson; we are the chosen people who have made it past that new haven and seek our own destiny. Oh, let my people...