Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...done everything I could for two and a half years to prevent it by informing the public, and had totally failed. It had neither convinced anyone nor prevented it. It was the blackest weekend of my life, the one time that I can remember feeling total, absolute despair...
...today is described by some futurologists in apocalyptic terms. Some kind of black death or brown is imminent. Famine, starvation, rebellion occur; the synthesis of progress based on energy, trade, and capital is broken by new (old) resource imperialisms, expropriations and capital shortages with rising costs of debt. We despair of the conditions for living...
...confidence in the future, was markedly depressed. Some 79% of those polled were very or somewhat pessimistic, down only slightly from 81% in May, which was several months before Richard Nixon resigned as President. The figures indicate that the national gloom then over Watergate has been replaced by despair about inflation...
...Mount Carmel and the orange groves of Jaffa. In part, the Palestinians' collective memory of homeland and the dream of return are kept alive by a large body of nostalgic Arabic poetry, written by angry young lyricists who know both the harshness of Israeli prisons and the despair of life in refugee camps. Some of these Palestinian "songs of liberation...
...winning the battle against hunger. Bumper harvests in many nations, notably the U.S., created food surpluses in the West, while the development of "miracle seeds" brought the hope that the densely populated poor countries would soon attain self-sufficiency. Then, in the past two years, this optimism turned to despair as hunger and famine began ravaging hundreds of millions of the poorest citizens in at least 40 nations. Much of the ground gained in the battle for food seemed lost as the world's harvest in 1972 was roughly 3% short of meeting demands. This year's harvest...