Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington, where there may be more attorneys per square foot than in any other city, the conversations are dominated by legal despair. The lawyers believe Ervin is doing an awful job in crossexamination. Young barristers and law school professors, freshly steeped in their textbook cases, are sure of it and can give you a lecture on how it should have been done...
...home and abroad." As to the freeze, which the President imposed against the advice of his aides, he said: "The freeze is holding down production and creating shortages that threaten to get worse." In a feeble echo of his former self. Nixon concluded: "We should not despair of our plight...
...that unhappy Land of Morning Calm remains divided. U.S. armed forces are still stationed south of the 38th parallel to protect an absolute police-state regime. As long as this situation prevails Korean society will be demoralized and the suffering, restless people will be pushed deeper into repression and despair. But their endurance is not unlimited. In order to stay in power, the unpopular Park Chung Hee regime is desperately trying to tie the U.S. down in Korea...
...countries will vote on it. At the moment, chances for the full merger that Gaddafi desires do not look promising. Wrote Mohammed Hassanein Heikal, editor of Cairo's influential Al Ahram and one of the few prominent proponents of merger: "I told a very sad Gaddafi not to despair, but to cling to his paradise...
...When Kompong Kantuot near Phnom-Penh was abandoned, the government troops were forced to swim the Thnot River because insurgents had blown the bridges. Some of the soldiers-boys aged twelve to 15-drowned. Those who escaped heard others, left behind and afraid to swim, weeping in fear and despair...