Word: hopeless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long before he would want more than the six divisions? Said Marshall: "If the Lord is good to us through what may be a decade of tension," the U.S. might even be able to withdraw some troops. Then he did not believe the defense of Europe to be hopeless? Said Marshall: "No, sir. 1940 looked far more hopeless...
...which takes for granted a war between Communism and the West, preaches the unoriginal warning that to defeat Russia, the West must find a more appealing faith than Marxism. For disillusioned intellectuals of Koestler's type, democracy as a function of liberty is unintelligible, and liberty itself a hopeless unknown...
...foils event was an almost hopeless cause, as Columbia has its main strength there. Only Chris Martin and Neil Jertson were able to score with one bout each as Columbia won the foils...
Despite the fact that the announced topic was "Can We Preserve Freedom and Achieve Security," Hutchins spent most of his address proving that numerous weapons and an army of the size called for by the present administration constituted a useless burden and a hopeless way of achieving international security. As for personal freedom, he said only that education was the answer here...
During Finland's gallant, hopeless "winter war" of 1939-40, Kallio traded his knife for a bayonet, went after the Russian invaders as a private. His father, Kyösti Kallio, was President of Finland...