Word: hopeless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guild rejected Welcome to Our City, and Wolfe remained steadfast in his refusal to trim it to a practical length. For six years he lived as a vagabond, teaching sporadically at N.Y.U., and roaming over the face of inter-war Europe. At times he was exultant, but often hopeless and despondent. From Brussels he wrote: "At 23, hundreds of people thought I'd do something. Now, no one does--not even myself. I really don't care very much...." Finally in 1929 Look Homeward Angel was published, and Thomas Wolfe came into...
...present situation, though serious, is by no means desperate or hopeless. There is not going to be any appeasement. I believe there is not going...
...their own consciences." But "since Christ interceded for sinners," said Earth, "Christian lawyers therefore obey Christ's fulfilled law by pleading for sinners-that they may live and receive what is right for their salvation under God. This means that the Christian lawyer is duty bound to take hopeless cases, as Christ...
Policy formed at NSA convention is often either superficially debated or not at all, and resolutions are pushed through with frightening haste. But rather than abandoning this as a hopeless situation beyond redemption, the Council should try, through more energetic participation and thoughtful planning, to strengthen its position as an important member...
...year-old father with chronic heart trouble expected his oldest son to support the family. When the son abruptly left home to join the Navy, the father felt hopeless and his condition worsened. After the son wrote that he would not come home on his first furlough, the father wound up in the hospital. A day later he died of ventricular fibrillation...