Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...children and babies your heart goes out to most, and to mothers who stare vacantly at you as they try to suckle babes at dried-up breasts . . . Watching people die slowly from starvation is worse than watching them die quickly in war. The look of utter despair on their faces is something I'll never forget...
...longtime despair of critics, the American political system often functions like a gigantic lubricating station for squeaky wheels. Responding to the skillful pressure of special-interest lobbyists, Congress and successive U.S. Administrations have put into effect myriad federal laws and regulations that stifle competition and tend to raise prices to consumers for the benefit of groups ranging from fruitgrowers in Florida to maritime unions in San Francisco and New York. Regulatory agencies, too, frequently act as guardians of the industries that they are supposed to regulate rather than as protectors of the consumer's interest...
Death Threat. Compromises are not easy to find in Kanawha County. In fact, the Rev. Charles Quigley of the Cathedral of Prayer publicly proclaimed a death curse on three of the school board members. One of them, Board President Albert Anson Jr., has already resigned in despair over the deadlock. Kenneth Underwood, the school superintendent, was so upset by death threats that he and his family occasionally moved into hiding. "It seems like you're on a runaway locomotive," he said. "It's a hopeless feeling-it's unreal." Underwood has announced that he will quit...
This way, of course, lie only madness and despair, but that is all right with Axel, since he has had all the boring advantages-a well-to-do family, a proper education. Indeed, when he has a few minutes to spare from the morning line he teaches literature in a New York City college. He knows-oh God, does he know-what he is doing. He is nearly consumed with self-awareness...
...America frustrates Anais Nin as a writer, and her anxious struggle for understanding spills into the entire volume. Universities invite her to lecture, while publishers reject her as a sales risk and literary critics besiege her dreams disguised as leeches and tarantulas. In despair, she considers dropping out of the literary world altogether, yet her sense of identity as a writer persists unfazed and it finally sustains...