Word: dispiritedness
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Standard production Index is the Federal Reserve Board's, which had slumped from its War II (alltime) high of 128 in December 1939 to a dispirited 102 in April. In June the Index was back up to 114, and continued advances of basic industries in July indicated that it...
The lingering hope of the dispirited defenders of Madrid was for an honorable, merciful peace. But from General Franco's headquarters in Burgos had come no promise of quarter, only a repeated demand for unconditional surrender-the white flag over Madrid. Then, last Tuesday morning, white flags began to...
as such is probably due to the fact that most of the humans in the cast seem dispirited in comparison with the live stock.
Freeman lectured on poetry to workers in the needle trades, noting that they liked Whitman but complained that T. S. Eliot was as bad as the Talmud. He worked his way to Russia on a freighter, got a job at the office of the Comintern as a translator. In Russia...
In the mid-twenties one of the most popular songs in the land was the lugubrious lament of a dispirited convict who wished he had the wings of an angel. Some 5,000,000 copies and phonograph records of The Prisoner's Song were sold. According to a myth...