Word: dispiritedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even Carter, upon his return to Washington, knew that he had gone too far this time. Many of his own campaign staff were becoming dispirited. One White House staffer admitted that he could hardly bear facing the morning headlines. Said he: "It's awful over here. Just awful." Carter...
Remarkably enough, there was an attempt to celebrate a holiday called Pashtunistan Day in Herat during our stay. In the past the occasion has called for parties, parades and dancing in the streets. This year in the desultory procession were a T-55 Afghan army tank, a number of military...
Kennedy had every reason to be dispirited. But he had long contended that his sole reason for continuing the futile challenge to the President was to check what he saw as his party's drift toward conservative economic policies and away from its liberal social values. The Senator wanted one...
A Gallup poll has found that teacher laziness and lack of interest are the most frequent accusations of half the nation's parents, who complain that students get "less schoolwork" now than 20 years ago. Whether the parent perceptions are fair or not, there is no doubt that circumstances...
Of all the presidential candidates, John Anderson sounded the most critical note. Said he: "This is a very painful thing for a country that is dispirited at the moment because of the protracted nature of the crisis. This is one more blow to the body politic in the sense that...