Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Toidy-Toid or Eighty-Foist streets or udder pernts around the place. Whether they ogled da goils, hersted da flag or simply berled in the noonday sun, they absolutely moidered the King's English. The "vulgar speech" that H.L. Mencken denounced in The American Language was long the despair of philologists, as well as a rich source of argot and gag lines for stand-up comics. But now Brooklynese seems to have just about gone the way of dem Bums, as the old Brooklyn Dodgers were known...
Pangs of Greed. This small novel leaves Muhlbach dangling between pleasure and despair. Packed with pre-Columbian arcana (Connell himself is a collector), it conveys the joyous release that absorption in a stern hobby can bring. Something alien has penetrated Muhlbach's life and opened vistas he can never exhaust. Not certain whether his response is to beauty or authenticity, Muhlbach nonetheless responds. Yet he is aware of some disquieting side effects: increasing pangs of greed for what he can appreciate but not afford, a habit of judging people by their acquisitions -and of being judged and found wanting...
...very same immensity of the University that drove me and so many friends to the depths of despair in our freshman year makes Harvard ultimately a very personal, unique experience. You grow up through all this chaos, even though the change sneaks...
Watergate and related scandals created a number of instant celebrities and brought notoriety, despair or both to some who were already prominent. A few of the best-known casualties maintained strict silence last week. Former Vice President Spiro Agnew and former Treasury Secretary John Connally would say nothing; at the Federal Prison Camp in Allenwood, Pa., Jeb Stuart Magruder watched the speech with other inmates. When an official asked what he thought, Magruder replied: "No comment." In Beverly Hills, John Dean told the federal marshals who are guarding him that he would say nothing about the resignation "today, tomorrow...
...sandy prison were not enough cause for suffering and despair, Winnie is faced with an ungodly personal isolation. Her only company is her husband Willie, who usually remains silent and unresponsive to Winnie's periodic pleas for reassurances. Willie is his wife's opposite; his silence is cynical, a more common, perhaps more reasonable, response to the infirmities of age and isolation...