Word: hopelessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the police led him away, Greenfield, a tired little milliner, told them the whole story. For 17 grey, hopeless years he had washed, dressed and fed his imbecile son. He bought him blocks and tin soldiers, read sense into his harsh animal cries. On Sundays he would lead the shuffling child, who was almost a head taller than he, past neighbors' eyes into the park. Both Louis Greenfield and his wife, Anna, stinted themselves, sent the boy to hospitals, neurologists, special schools. But modern science could teach him nothing, could not even relieve painful convulsions that attacked...
...foundation of unwritten law condoning mercy killings. It will also strengthen the case of euthanasia advocates, headed by Manhattan's famed Neurologist Foster Kennedy. Euthanasiasts decry mercy killings by overwrought relatives, plump for a tightly written law which will set up impartial committees of physicians to examine hopeless invalids, recommend scientific extinction...
Such characteristically gay and hopeless verses are likely to make plain readers suspect that Williams has more up his sleeve than his poems express. Dr. Williams invites this suspicion by using a new-fangled code to express a primitive notion of beauty. For so doing, he ranks as predominantly a poetaster...
When 13-year-old Clara Howard of Washington. D. C. emptied a lapful of peanut shells into an open fire, the flames leaped up, licked her neck and sides. After weeks of painful healing she was left a hopeless cripple, with her chin grown to her chest, her arms to her sides. Prof. Robert Emmet Moran of Georgetown University saw the little Negro girl at Emergency Hospital last year, determined to try a new experiment in plastic surgery: a living graft from another person of the same blood group (TIME, Dec. 13). Clara's distant cousin, John Melvin Bonner...
...Hope is not in its characterizations but in the graphic intensity of isolated scenes. A bomber emerging into calm moonlight after blowing up the gasworks at Talavera de la Reina; a fire fighter in Madrid atop his ladder, turning his fire hose in a last, hopeless, defiant gesture against an airplane machine-gunning him; Asturian dinamiteros, "the last body of men who can face the machine on equal terms," crawling forward to meet advancing tanks outside Toledo; the crew of a wrecked bomber carried out of the mountains by peasants, the long, winding, anguished procession stretching through vast ravines like...