Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time: I'm into the fifth day of the second week, which means that either tomorrow or Thursday, I've got to go cold turkey on ferry sinkings, militia uprisings and men biting dogs. But what about those jolly bits that the media throw in so you won't despair entirely? For instance, last week Reuters reported that a fellow in Toronto walked into a bank lobby carrying a live goose. Sounds like a joke ("Gimme a 20-year, fixed-rate mortgage, and one for my friend here"). But no; guy actually says, "Give me some money...
...Kids, the blues can take your breath away. A report suggests that feelings of despair may predispose ASTHMA-afflicted children to an attack...
...structures within the brain. But this latest finding should help researchers understand exactly what goes wrong when the brain is overwhelmed by hopelessness and, perhaps one day, help prevent the millions of Americans who may have inherited a propensity to depression from falling into the downward spiral of despair...
...Dixon becomes an epic of loss. The conquering of the wilderness means "reducing Possibilities to Simplicities that serve the ends of Governments,--winning away from the realm of the Sacred, its Borderlands one by one, and assuming them unto the bare mortal World that is our home, and our Despair...
...narcotic that is, like heroin, derived from opium. But Ventura's doctors were reluctant to give him an open prescription for fear he would become addicted. Forced to retire, Ventura spent much of the next 10 years confined to a hospital bed in his living room. Sometimes in his despair his thoughts turned to suicide...