Word: hopelessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Texas, moved his wife and two small boys to Seattle last summer, hoping to find shipbuilding work. He did not, and the Thompsons, broke, finally spent weeks in a barren charity apartment. "I always thought I could give my family a home," he says. "Now, well, it just feels hopeless...
Stassen is a monument to American perseverance; it's just a shame he didn't know when to quit. His hopeless quests for the presidency have become such a part of American folklore that sports writers often refer to habitual losers like the Red Sox or pre-Moses '76ers as the Stassens of their league...
...pretty much put in a hopeless situation," said Amherst undergraduate Sue Furbish of the Trustee's Committee on Student Life which is filing a report. "There is still a little bit of hope, but the general atmosphere on campus is that they are going to be abolished...
...year Arafat and his loyalists had held on for three weeks in the vicinity of the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli as a vastly larger force of P.L.O. rebels, strongly backed by Syria, tried to drive the Arafat faction into the sea. The chairman's cause seemed hopeless, as his followers lost control of one refugee camp, then another, and were cornered within a small section in the heart of Tripoli. But then, as Arab and various nonaligned diplomats rallied to his cause, Arafat seemed to be on the verge of escaping once again, to fight another...
Sherry offers her violent answer to the hopeless situation: "Cut his bloody engine off and then we'll kill ourselves and wake up in a world that doesn't know...