Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the Coast Guard began a hopeless search, the Star of Hollywood dropped to 10,000 feet and retraced the 500 miles back to Gander. T.W.A. and other operators ordered their Constellations to keep below 12,000 feet (where the cabin need not be pressurized) until astrodomes could be made safer and navigators supplied with safety harnesses. That was just about what the Army had done...
...life worth living after such a drastic operation? Dr. Brunschwig, taking issue with many doctors, answers an emphatic yes. At worst (if the patient survives), such surgery relieves suffering; at best, it may restore a hopeless, lingering invalid to useful work and a nearly normal life...
...hopeless" patients who submitted to Dr. Brunschwig's radical surgery, 34 died within a month. But 49 were greatly helped; of these 19 are still alive, one to ten years after their operations. Among them: a 50-year-old laborer who can do a full day's work though he lacks stomach and spleen...
...problem can be solved; it is not hopeless. Raggedly and slowly, but surely, the country's human and material resources are being mobilized. That is an enormous gain; The Crisis which ended Britain's short, uneasy sleep would not have come if that had been true last year...
...front is what would be described in military dispatches as "fluid." In Congress, the Republicans, who hoisted labor legislation to a "must" position on the field of domestic action, are wrangling over what to do and how to do it. And while the Nation's solons wrestle with the hopeless task of trying to legislate labor disputes out of existence, the workers themselves are readying to do battle with their only really effective weapon--the strike...