Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wherever he dug up the feelings -- his decades of defeat surely helped -- Hawthorne unforgettably evokes a man who is at once ruler and soiled dependent, blending dignity and hysteria, imperiousness and despair. He makes one hungry to see him all-out as Learand grateful that he finds Shakespearean depths in lesser parts because he finds them in himself...
...greatest threat. An acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement that literally means "zeal," Hamas wants nothing less than the destruction of the Jewish state, followed by the establishment of an Islamic Palestine as a precursor to a greater pan-Arab union. The organization was born in the misery and despair of the teeming refugee camps of the Gaza Strip five years ago, two months after the beginning of the intifadeh. Within three years the fundamentalists that the Israelis had once allowed to exist as a counterbalance to the P.L.O. were outlawed as the most serious security problem in the occupied territories...
...plots." His supporters say he intends to resign his party post, in order to try to raise the presidency above politics, and to appoint new, more vigorous ministers to key economic posts in the Cabinet. If the economy continues to stagnate, however, the Islamists can count on the despair of the nation to send them regiments of new recruits...
...predicament got the best of him, and he cried out for his captors to kill him and leave his body on the side of a road so that his children could find it and bury him properly. It was as he struggled against just that degree of despair that he heard the voices: "Mr. Weinstein. Mr. Weinstein." They were calling his name...
...Foster and his despair, I would like to find a troubled lawyer. I want to find a weak character not built to weather the cold political life in the capital, and to write off a world in which intrigue extends to the very upholstery in the White House...