Word: dispiritedness
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If the Arabs displayed wild fervor and unusual unity in facing Israel, the Israelis themselves reacted with extraordinary spirit. Lately, many Israelis had begun to fear that the dream that created and fired their state might be beginning to fade. Their country faced severe economic problems. Many who had settled...
Hello, Dole. Such mitun has proved too muscular, even for a country that has boasted an astounding average annual growth rate of 10% since 1951. Instead of easing to a planned-for 7½%, growth plunged to a slim 1.2% last year. Corporate profits fell 15%, while unemployment, once virtually...
What Ustinov has done, though, is dissipate his talents to the point where his prose fails for lack of discipline. This new volume of nine short stories is an example. Ustinov sometimes draws his characters so broadly that they are not entirely believable on the printed page. In Dreams of...
Roosevelt even drew the zones he favored on a National Geographic map, placing Berlin on the boundary line between the U.S. and Soviet zones. He held stubbornly to his position throughout the war, but his wishes were never made known or they went unheeded. At Yalta, when the Big Three...
Stevenson bandwagon in 1952. During that campaign, says a friend, "he got a glint in his eye that never left." But two straight crushing defeats nearly dispirited him. "Stevenson came along too soon," he lamented in 1957. "Americans, after a generation's buffeting by depression and war, had to...