Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Opening Day, all the doubt and despair of the next six months is superceded by boundless hope undying faith...
...death knell had sounded. I turned to leave in despair when a sign before my eyes proclaimed "March Is Nutrition Month...
...role models but also knocked the props from under churches, schools and other neighborhood institutions that provided stability and support for the impoverished. Middle-class flight, together with economic shifts that have resulted in a dearth of low-skill factory jobs, dooms the inner city to social isolation and despair...
...tales of hard-pressed people, few are more tragic than the history of affliction borne by the Indians of the U.S. Years of reservation life have left many of them mired in poverty and despair. In Washington the Senate's Select Committee on Indian Affairs is holding hearings on the general state of Indian problems, and they seem to be no better than ever: a high rate of alcoholism and mortality, desperate health conditions, low employment and income, rampant child abuse. Bad enough that years of failed policies administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs have contributed to the difficulties...
George Moore's The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs, adapted by Simone Benmusson, takes the stage this weekend at the Loeb Experimental Theater. The plot centers around a woman who disguises herself as a man but who, in the process, commits herself to a life of lonliness and despair. There is one performance Friday, and there are two on Saturday--one matinee. The show is free...