Word: dispiritedness
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1940 would never seem so far off as now, Vag mused. He watched the dispirited retreat of Sturtevant's bulk and felt only compassion. In spite of himself he was reminded of a wounded elephant's search for the graveyard.
He wouldn't. He was one of hundreds of top executives who had helped take over the boards when 340,000 National Federation of Telephone Workers walked out a month ago. But along with Bell's dial system and the thousands of nonstriking supervisors (who probably would benefit...
Last week Sherman Bowles's non-union and all but adless Daily News reached 80,000 circulation despite pickets around the building. Its circulation is now half what the entire monopoly's was before the strike. People bought it, ignoring strikers' pleas to take out-of-town...
He saw that his first job at Big Lick was to change a dispirited collection of families into a community of men&women. Their center would be the church. He started with the young folks-dances, socials, and "singing games." Then he set out to build his church.
The plump little Caudillo has recently had an extremely cold shoulder from all the major Allies. The Tangier conference door was slammed in his face (TIME, Sept. 3). Plagued by drought and lack of food (Spain needs nearly 2,000,000 tons of imported wheat), the Spanish people grow constantly...