Word: hopeless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...persons in twelve countries of Europe-assured me that if Russia decided to overrun Europe today, it could finish the job within [a week]. About 10% of the people in Europe would help the Russians, and about 80% would remain passive-believing that a fight against the Russians is hopeless under today's odds...
First Driblet. The South Koreans were in a complete and, apparently, hopeless rout. Suwon and its airfield were lost and Red flanking drives to the east were under way when the first driblet of U.S. ground troops-two battalions of the 24th Infantry Division-reached the zone of battle...
Frost has been standing people off all his life-the family who wanted him to become a lawyer, the editor who wanted him to change his style, the scientists who told him man is an accident of atoms, the theologians who told him that man is in a hopeless...
Eight long years later, Kansas decided to overhaul its mental hospitals with the help of the Menninger Clinic. Active treatment, designed to cure patients and return them to a place in society, was substituted for passive, hopeless "patient care." That was how Mrs. X met Dr. James M. Mott Jr. Young (29), redheaded Psychiatrist Mott found her amazingly spry for a woman of 72 who had been pent up for 17 years. She had enough energy to badger him unmercifully with her delusions. But soon it appeared that his regular visits gave her a sense of security. Dr. Mott...
...that point, the play ends with the girl and her mother crushed and hopeless, the son ready to follow his dreams into the merchant marine. In the movie, the visitor's line of guff, heavily larded with Dale Carnegie psychology, brings the girl out of her cocoon, eager to greet another gentleman caller who comes up the stairs at the upbeat fadeout...