Word: dispiritedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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It is 32 years since the birth of Israel, when most of the Palestinians fled or were forced from the land. Instead of having melded into the populations of Arab states that reluctantly offered them shelter, the Palestinians have transformed themselves from a dispirited band of exiles into a dispossessed...
The sand has run out for these lost worlds. In Yemen during the late '60s, Thesiger watches as the medieval mountain fortresses of royalist chieftains are turned into rubble by Nasser's air force. In 1977 he returns to Arabia to find desert life transformed by oil. There...
The man who has changed the image and style of the Flyers is Coach Pat Quinn, 36, who last January inherited a dispirited team holed up in the cellar of the Patrick Division and dreaming of past victories. Though he had played a plodding but physical game of hockey in...