Word: hopelessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supply a valuable part of the campaign strategy. By directing public attention to the gyrations of "the Magician" and his band of "white rabbits", Mr. Hoover puts his finger on the issues on which the campaign will be fought. Though the Supreme court has relieved the Democrats of the hopeless task of defending the NRA and AAA, there still remain unemployment, agriculture, an unbalanced budget, a rising bureaucracy, and "the black magic of a managed currency" to account for. The Hoover speeches have repeatedly raised issues which the New Deal can answer only by "the smoke screen of personalities...
...plan to make the Republican pre-convention campaign a testing ground for his liberal principles, the other candidates, anxious to avoid Republican dissension, refused to engage in primary rough & tumble with him or even with one another. If primaries selected only uninstructed delegates or delegates pledged to hopeless favorite sons, the Republican candidate would certainly be picked by political horse-trading at the convention. Sure that no dawn-lit face would emerge from a smoke-filled hotel room after midnight, Senator Borah set out to force the issue...
...afternoon of July 3, 1863, with the echoes of the greatest cannonade in U. S. history just dying away among the Gettysburg hills, a burly bearded officer nodded his head, sent Pickett and some 7,000 men across the open fields to their hopeless assault. That charge, whose last thin waves lapped up through the Union centre, was the high-water mark of the Confederacy. The officer whose nod sent Pickett's column to its doom was General James Longstreet. Around his burly figure the battle-smoke of partisan controversy has hung thick ever since. Did Longstreet lose...
...unsuspecting son. From this point on the depth of feeling increases between Yamano, who still desires Kimi, and his son, who can only resent without understanding his father's prohibition of further visits to her. In the end the traditional power of the family and the apparently hopeless future for Shigeo's type of liberalism in Japan prevail over the love of the young people, and instead of risking marriage they commit suicide together...
...last play I saw was a clincher, a final convincing argument that I was a hopeless back number. It was not that all of the men in the case were cheaters, and all of the women but one. I am quite used to that now. It was the line which built up the entrance of the only maiden (in name only...