Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...debilitating sort of urban schizophrenia. On one hand, a small but highly visible minority of residents are enjoying the rich possibilities of upheaval. "Life has never been more exciting in this city!" gushes a street entrepreneur. Others, however, are gripped by a feeling of profound disorientation, even despair. "There is no future here," says Vasili Alexeyev, who shares a single-room apartment with his wife and two sons. "Before, life in Moscow was bad; now it is even worse. We live without hope for tomorrow...
...string of hopes started with the despair I felt of that war and ran the gamut of existence form women's issues, racial issues and the preservation of a habitable planet to the technical ontological and theological questions in which I believed I would find answers to everything else. To protect and extend the chain...
...friend last week that he believes he has bottomed out, that the dark, five-month period where almost nothing went right is nearly over. But the President's aides acknowledge privately that his political condition is weak and likely to remain so. Much but not all of this despair is based on the curious lack of boost Clinton is getting from the economy. Though it has + been expanding for more than two years, only 31% of Americans believe that the recession has ended where they live, according to a TIME/CNN poll. If the President is not getting credit...
...time a physician cousin told the family that Price's prospects were "six months to paraplegia, six months to quadriplegia, six months to death." He endured multiple surgeries, steroids that distorted his mind and body, torturous physical therapy that proved unavailing, massive leaks of spinal fluid and altogether understandable despair. When the battle was over, when the addictive pain-killers and useless back braces and countless other palliatives were tossed aside, he was paralyzed and in perpetual pain. The cancer seems dormant now, but the doctors make no promises. Yet Price insists that in all but the worst few months...
There are no accurate statistics on suicide among the 2.7 million Vietnam veterans, particularly among the 300,000 who came home wounded. But veterans' groups believe the rate to be far higher than national averages. Puller's death sent waves of anguish coursing through veterans who have known similar despair and have also sought refuge in alcohol or drugs. But not everyone who shared Puller's experience of life after near death followed the same path. Senator Bob Kerrey, who lived in a ward with Puller during rehabilitation in Philadelphia, lost part of a leg in Vietnam but maintained...