Word: disillusioners
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Republican Robert Smylie of Idaho urged greater "candor" in the Administration's discussions of its objectives. "There is a growing disillusion over our progress in Southeast Asia," he said. "There is beginning to develop a great crisis of confidence over our ability to achieve our objectives."
For girls, as important as sex is the desire to "love." But an early expectation of romance can soon be replaced by harsh reality. Disillusion is especially rapid when the husband has to curtail his education or children arrive too early.
The play is the story of O'Neill's own family, given the name of Tyrone. All the Tyrones are escapists, running from unfulfilled dreams, or from the more painful disillusion with fulfilled dreams. James Tyrone is a financially successful matinee idol who has risen from immigrant Irish poverty. His...
Disillusion in this situation sets in quickly, and the turnover on the executive committee, the club's ruling body, is extremely high. Among those members who remain, too, are those who privately express doubt that the organization will ever be able to justify its existence by doing more than what...
Two Shortcomings. Keitel considered it himself but decided against it. "The armed forces," he wrote in his Nürnberg cell, "would have labeled me a deserter and a coward. Hitler himself chose death rather than accept responsibility. For him to have committed suicide when he knew he was defeated...