Word: despairingly
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...almost 20 seconds, creating an incredible din and an embarrassing spectacle. Reagan had little chance to respond to -- or sort out -- their jabbering. None of the correspondents would yield to the other, even though it was a live broadcast. Print reporters, no saints themselves, shook their heads in despair. Secretary of State George Shultz laughed in thinly veiled disgust. Reagan let the scene play out to his advantage. ABC Anchorman Peter Jennings, standing by in New York City, was appalled by the "babble," and said so over...
...prepared text of that speech Vanderpoolsaid, "although it is impossible not to despair atthe loss of a loved one, hopefully wheneverstudents see this tree, they can smile inside andcelebrate the many happy remembrances he gave us.The tree could perhaps allow us to pause andcelebrate life's memories which make it sobeautiful...
...when the union's incontrovertible demand for "55% of the gross" was etched in Silly Putty, seven weekly paychecks were lost along with $200 million in league revenues. For 57 days Havoc hovered over television networks while Despair settled into gambling parlors and living rooms. But the autumn leaves were beautiful...
...mines and die; mother and wife wait for the sound of their men coming home, or for the fatal word that they won't. Life has pressed all hope out of these faces -- to smile would be a crime against remorseless nature -- though there is no free time for despair. The miners have been taught to accept their miserable lot and fear the company, which owns their houses and furniture and food, as they fear % God. What would it take for them to fight back? Maybe the quiet rhetoric of a union organizer...
...third of all black families remain mired in poverty? Why is the jobless rate for black teenagers 40%? Why are 60% of all black children born out of wedlock? And why has the American ghetto become a self-perpetuating nightmare of fatherless children, welfare dependency, crime, gangs, drugs and despair...