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Word: hopelessness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...persistence of world-wide hunger has led us to despair and to therefore treat the problem as an insoluble one. We feel that it is hopeless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overcoming Hopelessness--and Hunger | 4/18/1978 | See Source »

When people realize the game is up, then it is. It is time to realize that hunger has solutions, that it is not hopeless, that it can, and will, end within 20 years. We can begin to eliminate starvation by simply realizing this. Within this climate, what we do will work. The game is up on hunger. It is an idea whose time has come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overcoming Hopelessness--and Hunger | 4/18/1978 | See Source »

...clear that my own people will not be satisfied with crumbs from the tables of the privileged classes. They will want full participation in the decision-making processes of their country. There is, however, the temptation in the minds of many people to believe that the situation is so hopeless that violence is inevitable. We must resist this view with all our might. We must refuse to surrender to this sense of hopelessness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Qoboza--a Role for the U.S. | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...psychic toll of another family vacation (the fighting in the back seat finally got to them). I have known, with a sense of doom approximating the feeling of a Christian Scientist with appendicitis, that I will not be embarking on a spree in the Netherlands Antilles, but on a hopeless quest to entertain myself in a deserted suburban wasteland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Springtime in Suburbia | 3/23/1978 | See Source »

...MOST HORRIFYING part of the story is that, despite Brodeur's seemingly comprehensive research and documentation, he himself claims to know only the "tip of the iceberg." He does propose a solution, though it seems almost limp and pragmatically hopeless...

Author: By David Dahlquist, | Title: The Microwave War | 2/2/1978 | See Source »

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