Word: despairs
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...military-industrial complex, you see, has reared its bloody head with renewed vengeance. But big-hearted professors of The Rights of Man need not despair just yet, if only we can divert some of the war-mongering wampum from bombers, battleships and other things armies generally need to—dum-da-da-dee-DUM!—a beefed-up force of permanent peacekeepers...
...Creole community. "The younger generation doesn't really have any hope," says Jean-Michel Grosset, a high-school principal and resident of the town of L'Entre-Deux (pop. 5,000). "They live off benefit payments and anesthetize themselves with alcohol and marijuana. It's a breeding ground for despair...
Some expressed the humiliation that has silenced them, and has prevented them from prosecuting their attackers. Others described their journeys from anguish and despair to strength and empowerment. Those who spoke ranged from middle-aged women to gay students, to students who had been molested as children, and friends of victims...
...Greenspan, like everybody else, is still waiting to see where this economy is headed. That's one of the sources of the markets' frustration of late - that they're still mostly alone in their despair. Bad earnings reports, and investor despondency over same, have been coming too long to scare Greenspan now; what he really fears is fear itself, and until those consumers start closing their wallets, the Fed likely won't step...
Attending sleepovers in sixth grade meant going through the torture of having my hair teased, curled, spritzed and finally, in despair, drawn in an tear-jerkingly tight ponytail, the stray wisps shellacked with hairspray or curled on my forehead in a pathetic attempt at bangs...