Word: despairs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...comic melodrama to the last days of the campaign. Izvestia, official Soviet Government newspaper, ran an article headlined: THE ELECTION OF ROOSEVELT GUARANTEED. It is said that the core of Dewey's Republican staff had "pro-Fascist, pro-German ties"; and that with campaign "failure imminent . . . Republicans in despair might resort to a big adventure." The "adventure," it said, might well be a fake last-minute assassination plot against Dewey, with the Communists, of course, blamed for it. Thundered Izvestia: "History includes a number of such insolent, crude provocations on the eve of parliamentary elections in democratic countries...
...sixth, and critical, winter of war settled upon Europe with chilling rains, hunger and uncertainty. It was different from any winter since 1939, for the focus of despair had shifted from German-occupied countries to Germany. But retreating Nazis left chaotic disruption, vital shortages, and something more portentous. Liberated Europe was like a sea bottom from which the ebbing of a foul tide had exposed strange, unfamiliar, disturbing forms-the forces of the social war of which World War II was a military expression...
Italy, said Dewey, is suffering mass unemployment, hunger and despair. "The Italian people deserve something better than the improvised, inefficient administration which personal New Deal government is giving them today...
...resistance. On the basis of our Treasury's ill-conceived proposals the German people were told that a program of destruction was in order for them if they surrendered. Almost overnight the morale of the German people seemed wholly changed. Now they are fighting with the frenzy of despair. We are paying in blood...
...class in what amounted to "Naval Indoctrination for the Bashful D.O." or "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad G.A.O.?," we have found our usually overflowing letter-box (damn those girls) even more super-saturated as bewildered ex-Seniors turn to the Lucky Bag for succour in hour of DEspair. Bear with us as we quote a few of the missives rec'd:--Dear Carpet (or is it Lucky...