Word: hopelessly
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...came and went, too, over the surface of the earth, gradually losing hope and yet never quite losing it, for no doctor said firmly that the child could never be healed. There were alway, the last hesitant words, 'I don't want to say it is hopeless,' and so I kept hoping in the way parents have...
Gobbledygook for Hopeless. How does the world look to the Kremlin in this summer of 1950? Last week TIME correspondents in Washington, London, Paris, Berlin, Rome and Tokyo asked the question of the West's students of the Soviet mind. None of the experts really thought he could pinpoint the Kremlin's thoughts with any certainty, but there was a notable agreement on some main points of Russian thinking-past, present and future. A composite view of the West's experts...
Department considered Korea "strategically unrewarding"-which is Washington gobbledygook for "hopeless." This attitude was reported in the U.S. press and believed by the Kremlin...
...Asia, this had not been enough. In Asia, the props of ordered freedom were just not strong enough to withstand the Communist pressure. So China fell while the U.S. argued about the political morals of Chiang Kai-shek and consoled itself with babble about the hopeless "complexity of the situation." After that, "the situation" became infinitely more complex and the reality harder & harder to ignore. The reality was: Communism was winning the victory and might never have to resort...
...Communist invaders from North Korea last week reaped the harvest of tactical surprise, of crushing superiority in weapons. The spectacle was the sickening one of a heavyweight punching around a wispy little man who has just got up from a sickbed. The situation, though grim, was not hopeless. At week's end, the little man had powerful friends hurrying to his side...