Word: dispiritedness
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It was another doughty set of Republicans, led by Massachusetts' Cabot Lodge, who led the fight against McClellan. The White House gave them no help, and little came from Texas' weary, dispirited Tom Connally or from Majority Leader Ernest McFarland, who was simply ineffectual.
But the Americans did not settle down on the new line. They pushed another reconnaissance in force-three armored patrols-north to disturb the Reds in Wonju if any were there. The town was unoccupied except for a few dispirited civilians wandering among the ruins. Later a North Korean assault...
As a leader of large groups, particularly of young people, Holmes is without equal. The interest he takes in his work, in both music and his musicians, wins over completely the players under him. It is this quality, in addition to his unquestionably fine musicianship, that produces the results Holmes...
Cianfone wrote again, this time to Communist Labor Leader Giuseppe Di Vittorio. No answer. Complained Cianfone: "The party hasn't helped me. They leave me to fight alone." On May Day, 1950, Cianfone was too dispirited to organize a Communist demonstration. Instead, he went off to the local wine...
"Nothing Could Be Worse." On the battlefield of Suchow (TIME, Nov. 29, 1948), Reporter Doyle watched the Nationalist soldiers' dispirited attempt to beat back the Communists, and in besieged North China he talked to a group of miners whose conversation reflected the spirit of Nationalist China after a decade...