Word: dispiritedness
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Such confidence in Eisenhower the President-as opposed to Ike the friend-had been strangely long in coming. Only a few weeks ago, much of the European press-and especially the British press-was still painting Dwight Eisenhower as a weak President, racked by illness, sapped by age and barely...
Without fuss or bitterness, the segregated public schools of St. Louis were smoothly integrated four years ago. Children were ordered to attend schools in their own neighborhoods, and no transfers were allowed. But that effective formula (also followed in Washington, D.C.) re-emphasized a sad, subtle U.S. segregation of another...
"We expected big trouble when the season's main flood waters hit the dam-and we have got it," said a dispirited game warden last week as he stood on the banks of Rhodesia's man-made Kariba lake. Before his weary, red-rimmed eyes lay a vast...
At that point, Cuban Prime Minister Gonzalo Guell dropped in secretly on Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, got ready promises of a refuge for Batista and his cohorts. In fierce street fighting that killed 60, Guevara whipped a dispirited army garrison of 3,000 men and took...
THE BALTIMORE SUN: FOR the better part of two years, this has been a dispirited Administration. Tuesday's results, we believe, were primarily the reflection of that and of the consequent public uneasiness.