Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French official quoted British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin as saying "the case is hopeless," at the conclusion of his third session with George Bidault of France and Russian Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov...
...vacationing" in Europe. I came here to see for myself what can be done for the wretched and hopeless. . . . The ruin and death and agony might move even your "critic's" mean little heart. I have been here two months, and am sick with compassion and my own impotence...
...comparative scores are any indication of how a tennis match will go, the Varsity net squad should be almost hopeless underdogs to Yale when they meet this afternoon at the Soldiers Field courts...
...California. 76-year-old Krikor Arakelian read the stories. Arakelian was the watermelon king of Southern California and the owner of Mission Bell wines. He was a millionaire many times over. But no amount of money seemed able to cure his son, a hopeless epileptic since his head was injured in an auto accident. Arakelian made up his mind to send for Avak. Last week the faith healer of Azerbaijan arrived at Los Angeles' municipal airport, dressed in the long robes of a Gregorian Communicant, with matted beard and shoulder-length hair framing his pallid face...
Herbert and his handful of Oppositionists could have kept the House voting all night. But at i a.m. they gave up the hopeless fight and did not return to the floor. Laborites, who had been yawning and sprawling on their benches, came to life. Mrs. Bessie Braddock, a Liverpool Laborite, did a victory dance across the green carpet, triumphantly plumped her plumpness on the Tory bench where Winston Churchill usually sits...