Word: dispiritedness
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John Kennedy called him "the best election man in the business," and many leaders in both parties still think of Lawrence Francis O'Brien that way. The reputation is well-deserved. J.F.K.'s two Senate races and the Democratic presidential campaigns of 1960 and 1964 benefited from the...
Dispirited by poverty, rejected by a white culture in which they are often unable and unwilling to compete, many Indians choose death or drink. The suicide rate among Indian teen-agers is three times the national average; on some reservations it is ten times as high. Shattered by her parents...
Dinis was put down at the start by the firm Judge Boyb. The prosecutor had insisted that Kennedy be called as the last witness, presumably so that he could explore all possible inconsistencies in testimony about the tragedy before confronting the Senator. Boyle told Dinis: "I will not keep a...
Bruins Slap Dispirited Harvard Icemen Leaving Watson Rink With 4-3 Victory
Author Shetzline, a onetime Forest Service lookout himself, has the gift of using sometimes lyrical, sometimes colloquial, language to describe the woods, the men, and the fire that consumes both: "Each time the cull deck shifted, tons of fuel would resettle and a hundred dozen sparks would be sucked upwards...