Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letters about Watergate. More than half of them have criticized Nixon in terms ranging from "Unfortunate" to "He should be committed," while about one-fifth have supported the President. Roughly 15% claim the press and/or TIME are prejudiced against Nixon. And some readers just throw up their hands in despair over the whole mess. "Is there no other news in the world?" one of them asked...
...reported one participant), and so was the disheartened George Shultz, ready to trudge on. The ripples from such meetings can in the long run change the Government and the nation. But is it too little and too late? Richard Nixon's Government is for now an ocean of despair...
Despite all the violence-another 14 people killed in the past fortnight-the mood of Ulster seems not to be one of despair. Says Mrs. Maureen McClure, an official Unionist candidate in North Down: "Most people today are exhausted by the carnage and destruction." Adds Paddy Devlin of the S.D.L.P.: "A man could say logically 'Oh, Jesus, it's not going to work.' But to my mind, the face of politics will never be the same after this election. Everybody is tired and wants peace. I think we're heading for better times. I feel...
...Moscow bureau chief is rarely an easy one. Bureaucracy and secretiveness often combine to make the Soviet Union a journalist's despair. But for John Shaw, Russia simply presents the best sort of reportorial challenge: "The KGB agents who sometimes follow you, the Soviet officials who often want your opinions, the visiting scholars who call with questions, all symbolize in their way the unique position of the foreign correspondent in Moscow," he says...
...suspected that he was marked out as the "fall guy." Finally, he sat down in the rustic cottage and began to write. As he later told a friend: "The pen wouldn't write the 'fairy tale' they wanted. It kept spelling out the truth." In despair, he threw down his pen and declared...