Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These results indicate that nothing has happened to relieve the general mood of public despair. Nor have Americans' opinions about how well things are going in their personal lives changed significantly. Putting this seeming paradox together with answers to other questions, Yankelovich analysts conclude that Americans are "undoubtedly leary" of any change, like impeachment, that could upset their own personal sense of well being...
...most willing to forgive his flawed stewardship or even defend him as the victim of his critics. Everywhere there were Americans who still applaud his achievements in foreign policy, and particularly in finally ending the Viet Nam War. But the dominant mood was a growing sense of dismay, disenchantment, despair, and a willingness to recognize if not approve that the President may sooner or later have to step down...
...since 1908, are facing their last stride for the gold. The International Olympic Committee recently dropped the 50-kilometer walk from future Games and scheduled one last 20-kilometer walk in 1976. The awkward walkers, say officials, create traffic problems as they fan out through city streets. Moreover, referees despair of ever properly policing the prescribed form (one foot must always be in contact with the ground, one knee must not bend at a certain moment of the stride) over a long course. Now the walkers are organizing a campaign to save the walk. "We realize it will...
...prizewinning novel that Wilder published in 1967, he has a character say: "It is the duty of old men to lie to the young. Let these encounter their own disillusions. We strengthen our souls, when young, on hope; the strength we acquire enables us later to endure despair as a Roman should...
...many of the men and women who came out of the President's news conference Friday night and walked through this scene carried with them a deep sense of despair...