21.   Desperate people sometimes do desperate things.

22.   Desperate people with incurable diseases are beseeching the company for treatments, though none will be ready for years if ever.

23.   Desperate people with incurable diseases beseech the company for treatments, though none will be ready for years.

24.   Document vendors provide the tools needed to find work, but they can be ruthless, squeezing desperate people for exorbitant sums.

25.   He let it be known what he thought about a State Department that strangled desperate people with red tape.

26.   His English classes are overflowing with people desperate to learn the language well enough to take their citizenship exams.

27.   Hundreds of desperate people have camped along the thin remains of dikes, waving hopefully at passing airplanes that cannot land.

28.   I know what can happen when desperate people seek revenge.

29.   In farce, desperate people are pushed to extraordinary acts in an attempt at maintaining a semblance of normalcy.

30.   In Moscow, desperate people must sometimes wait years, or pay exorbitant bribes, to get telephone service that is expensive and unreliable.