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Word: despairs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reflect on fact that your best friend has won a Rhodes to study at Oxford for two years, your roommate has been accepted to grad school at Dartmouth, your high school boyfriend just signed with Morgan Stanley, and you can't even commit to spring break plans. Moan in despair. Snooze...

Author: By Mary LOUISE Kelly, | Title: A Day in the Life of Thesis Hell | 2/17/1993 | See Source »

...flip on computer, and stare bleakly at your thesis outline one more time. Experience fleeting moment of joy at thought that all your friends in Social Studies have dropped their theses, switched to Gov, and are now downing pitchers at the Grill. Realize you already are Gov. Moan in despair...

Author: By Mary LOUISE Kelly, | Title: A Day in the Life of Thesis Hell | 2/17/1993 | See Source »

...latest cases will test a city that today has a new police chief, a new district attorney and at least 52 candidates for mayor. Yet in the streets the frustration and despair that helped trigger last year's violence show little change. "People are anxious about these trials," says Karen Bass, director of a substance-abuse center with headquarters in South Central. "There is sentiment that the lid could blow off again because people don't feel that their concerns are being addressed. No one wants to see the same thing happen again, but it is a real possibility. People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: L.A.'s Open Wounds | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

Harvard Womens Hockey coach John Dooles sat forlornly at his desk in Bright Hockey Center last night with a look of supreme despair...

Author: By Darrln M. Kilfara, | Title: Icewomen Falter in Beanpot, Lose Opening Game to Brown | 2/4/1993 | See Source »

...Clinton vended optimism; now he must become a pitchman for austerity. He sold the nation a miracle product, All-New Hope: it gives you cleaner, cheaper government with a fresh minty flavor. But if it doesn't get the stains out, the electorate's high hopes could sour into despair. Then the man called ( Hope will become the man called Hype -- nothing more than a baby-boomer Babbitt. All the big stars and better angels will leave him out in the spotlight, stranded, unmasked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock Around the Clock | 2/1/1993 | See Source »

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