Word: hopelesses
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...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...
...like a violin and all, and that it takes a terrific musician to play it right. It was a very corny book-I realize that-but I couldn't get that violin stuff out of my mind anyway." His enthusiasm for that kind of fiddling practice fades in hopeless embarrassment as soon as the tart snakes out of her dress...
Despite intelligent performances and a kind of dreary integrity of purpose, Night into Morning mires down in the difficulty of saying anything to comfort the acutely bereaved without sounding platitudinous or inadequate. The effort to dramatize a message of hopeful solace seems even more hopeless, leaves the picture tediously uneventful, as sincere and futile as a note of condolence...
...slowly starving because muscular contraction made it almost impossible for him to swallow. Arthur Morton sold three of his eight cows to pay for a plane trip to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn, last April. There Donald's case was considered again. The doctors' verdict: hopeless...
...over the boy. "Then," says Arthur Morton, "our prayers were answered." Reading of the Mortons' journey in a Los Angeles newspaper, an elderly Pasadena woman persuaded Brain Specialist William T. Grant to examine the boy, guaranteed hospital and medical expenses. She too had had what doctors called a "hopeless" subdural hydroma, and had been cured of it by surgery...