Word: dispiritedness
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In Parliament, the dispirited remnants of the late Jan Christiaan Smuts's United Party fought to the end. "The government is aiming at a puppet court which would ultimately be no better than a row of ventriloquists' dummies," shouted one M.P. before he was gaveled down. Many in...
Spoiled Campaign. The day after Malenkov fell, Britain's Nye Bevan made an uncharacteristically dispirited defense of his attempt to delay German rearmament and was defeated in a Laborite caucus by a decisive 23 votes. In Wrest Germany, where Konrad Adenauer had been forced to take to the hustings...
IN his death cell at Nairobi one day last February, China convinced his captors that the Mau Mau, reduced to dispirited remnants, were ready to surrender if the British would give a sign. On the order of the governor of Kenya, he was smuggled out of jail, disguised as an...
Anna (Silvana Mangano; M-G-M). A dispirited tango from the Italian film of the same name, recorded from the film's sound track. Actress Mangano gives it a minimum of singing but plenty of sensual lassitude.
John Hersey's whimsical study [Sept. 8] of what has happened to the Yale class of 1936 doesn't surprise me in the least. Even back in 1936 they were a dispirited lot.