Word: hopeless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...situation was that the Federalistas in Juarez were waging a hopeless battle against Insurrectos under General Miguel Valles. A stray bullet fired by an Insurrecto traversed the Rio Grande and broke a window pane on the 13th floor of El Paso's First National Bank. Also in El Paso, a two-year-old U. S. girlchild, Miss Lydia Roberts, was killed by a second stray bullet, and a third despatched "the most popular U. S. citizen in Juarez," jovial "Teddy" Barnes, bartender of the famed Mint Cafe. With a bank, a baby and a bartender all involved, General George...
With the count 8-5 Harvard came back to win 3 out of four in the epee. S. C. Smith '31 defeated Tompkins in the first epee contest. The chance of winning the match became hopeless however, when Sanville of Columbia beat H. B. Wesselman '31 in the second bout. Harvard won the two remaining bouts though they had no bearing on the final result...
...placed the name of Smith before Democratic Conventions, and who had dubbed him The Happy Warrior. With his Warrior in unhappy defeat, Governor-Elect Roosevelt took small pleasure in predictions that he himself might be the hope of an, at least momentarily, nationally hopeless Democracy. Also, since he had not yet entirely recovered from paralysis of the legs, Mr. Roosevelt could not confidently contemplate long years of public office...
...soon would be set. His extracted eye had had a tumor. His other eye was good. But Nordic Ferguson's other eye was bad. It bore a cataract, an opaque thickening of the cornea that prevented light images going through his pupil and striking upon his retina. So hopeless was his case that he had become an inmate of Manhattan's Home for the Blind. And he is only...
...finale of Act I was a hopeless bungle, due to an awkward set that forced the ecclesiastical procession into the body of the church, an amateur chorus, a green Scarpia (Lawrence Tibbett), the lack of an organ and the sluggish conducting of Merola. . . . Any unforeseen gap she [Jeritza] would fill with her bloodcurdling shrieks or her hollow whispers; she raved, raced and ranted all over the scene, she trembled like a palsied aspen leaf; betimes she played the accomplished acrobat, and, of course, she sang most of the 'Viss d'Arte' lying face downward, as if praying...