Word: dispiritedness
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At a hastily called United Nations Security Council meeting, U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson described the U.S. action as a "limited and measured response fitted precisely to the attack that produced it, and the deployment of additional U.S. forces to Southeast Asia is designed to make unmistakably clear that the U.S...
The citizen of Munich who found himself stranded outside Bavaria had until recently an easy cure for his Heimweh. All he had to do was pick up a telephone, dial 0811, and listen. Over the wire came a soft, feminine whisper: "München . . . München . . . München...
Public support and their own technical economies have given a great measure of artistic independence to the men of the new cinema. More and more they have been able to say what they want to say and not what some banker thinks the public wants to be told. The results...
Frazier is also constantly upset at life's imbalances. He is dispirited to find cars, not deer, at deer crossings; and when his thoughts drift to Howard Johnson's-a direction that Frazier's corpus rarely takes -they are wistful. "If only Howard Johnson's would...
Signs of Slackening. Each European exchange has its own local reasons for being dispirited. But there is also an overall fear that Europe's mighty postwar economic rebound is slowing down. Fortnight ago, Robert Marjolin, one of the Common Market Commission's three vice presidents, declared that he...