Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inhabit a beach-front enclave that is fast growing into an Israeli Riviera. But more than 60% of Gaza's Arabs are refugees, most of whom live in squalid United Nations camps built 40 years ago. In the camp of Nuseirat, Sabha, a 50-year- old woman, finds only despair. "There is no way of getting out of this muddy life unless a miracle occurs," she said. "But the time of miracles has gone...
...amidst a seething abyss of turmoil, despair, defeat, defeat, and defeat, not all is black on the Yale lacrosse scene--or so this reporter has discovered, after boldly defying the administration ban by contacting his old school pal and lax team captain Buddy Bixford...
...soccer fans shouldn't despair of seeing Pepper in action. Even if he's on ice for the NCAAs, Pepper says there's a chance that he'll return to Ohiri Field next fall. Time on the sidelines has given Pepper the eligibility to red-shirt--and the sociology concentrator says he might take spring semester off or begin work on a master...
Cohen seems to find much glee in his discovery that the Index is "unsparing in its depiction of the folkways of the Midwest." Never mind that he couches glee in his despair. His smugness and "Letterman-esque snidery" are much more apparent. He relates that the Index tells us "40 percent of Iowans have a hard time singing The Star-Spangled Banner.'" The people who compiled the book, as well as its readership, would probably interpret a universal Midwestern knowledge of the national anthem as the mindless nationalism most of them undoubtedly believe is characteristic of the region...
...panic was gone, but not the sense of helplessness. Like survivors of a natural disaster, Wall Streeters swung in a half-rational pendulum of despair and delight last week. Ready for a fresh quake in any direction, investors searched for definite portents in every new development in the U.S. dollar, interest rates and the budget deficit. But if the market was capable of a one- day, 508-point drop on Black Monday, Oct. 19, who could say what it might do next? Some seers thought they knew, yet their conclusions were as contradictory as they were passionate...