Word: hopeless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good doctors had called it a hopeless case: in Pasadena last week, four-year-old Donnie Morton proved them wrong. After three delicate operations for subdural hydroma (water on the brain), Donnie left the hospital and tackled the job of learning to walk and talk again...
...finally an affair with a rich divorcee, Mary Raeburn. While the whole town is clucking, Ferris discovers that Mary, in her own way, is as much of an emotional bankrupt as Enid. One afternoon he finds her doubled in pain from the need for dope; she is a hopeless addict...
Instead of working at the hopeless task of making the Charles suitable for swimming, the Commission is construct- ing a series of public pools on the river's banks. Another constructive step which has been taken is the lessening of waste production in the woolen mills through the adoption of improved industrial techniques. But, Mr. Taylor states, this is only a minor triumph. "The sheep is a filthy animal," he says, and nothing can be done about...
...defensible military outpost, Vienna is hopeless. The U.S. has about 1,500 troops here, Great Britain about a 1,000, and France about the same. The Russians undoubtedly have more than the combined Western total in the city alone, to say nothing of what is in the rest of of the Austro-Russian zone and in Czechoslovakia 25 miles away...
...German veteran explained how: "When that scum Remer started lambasting rearmament, we soldiers figured rearmament must be the right thing." Two other factors: rising prosperity gives the Germans a feeling they have something to defend; and Allied successes in Korea suggest that joining the West is not joining the hopeless side...