Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poll's findings show a general mood of public despair about conditions in the nation-an attitude that has changed drastically since a Yankelovich survey in October 1972, shortly before Nixon's triumphant reelection. Then, 53% of the people had a positive feeling about the way things were progressing; now 71% feel that things are going badly. Watergate is a substantial factor in the shift, since 36% of the public now express concern about the scandal. Yet the economy worries more people (66%, a climb of 25% since 1972), while the war in Southeast Asia predictably has dropped...
...ensuing ten years or so, many of his predictions proved painfully accurate. Now, with remarkable timing, he offers a historic analysis of the peculiarly American institution that is being blamed for most of what has gone wrong. In rage and despair over Viet Nam and Watergate, Americans have been urging reform of the presidential power, including everything from a longer term of office to abolition of the Chief Executive in favor of a six-man directorate...
...took a deep dive into rumination and surfaced aglistening with optimism. Taking a long view of his trade, Anderson raised a rhetorical question about the muckraker's role in a time of widespread corruption and scandal. Might not he further weaken the national spirit by encouraging cynicism and despair...
...Foggy Bottom the despair of the State Department personnel is turning into anger. "The foreign policy is going to hell and fast," said one knowledgeable and powerful ambassador. If the leadership is not changed, charged another top diplomat, Foreign Service morale is going to sink even lower. There is a tendency now among many of these men and women not even to look for leadership but to do the best job they can on their...
This is the backdrop against which actions by Palestinians have to be seen. They have waited for twenty-five years for the world to give them back to their country, but the world community has failed them. They are filled with despair that turns into anger of such intensity that they feel they must now take matters in their own hands. That is their only hope. The guerilla groups are determined to do just that. This development of Palestinians fighting for themselves brought for many of them a rebirth, a new sense of humanity. Turki returned from his retreat...