Word: dispiritedness
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Doeg, smashing his left-handed service into the far corners of Vines's receiving courts, waiting for breaks which would enable him to win a game on Vines's serve, won the first set 12-10; the second (during which an awning of the clubhouse caught fire), 8...
The outside game is necessary because it serves as a beneficial tonic to a morale that tends to become dispirited through the monotony of playing the same teams. In keeping with this attitude those in charge have arranged outside games for both the class and dormitory teams. The former have...
Stephen S. Wise, rabbi snubbed by European Zionists: "I come back a disillusioned and dispirited man after I looked upon the darkest hour of the Jewish nation in many generations. There is no Zionism. It is dead. I thought I was leaving the land in which Zionism was misunderstood and...
So dispirited were they that when another motor drew up alongside, neither pedagogue noted anything familiar or remarkable in .the appearance of the driver, a slim young man with an ineffectual black mustache which inspired no confidence.
Personally brave, reckless by nature, the War showed him up to the best advantage. At one time a Serbian detachment was menaced by a strong Austrian force. The Prince sprang to the head of the dispirited troops and called upon them to advance, but the men, not recognizing him, hesitated...