Word: hopelessness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gift provides $2 million for equipment and an $8 million addition to the $12 million endowment-enough to make the college almost selfsupporting. For Chinese doctors, struggling against almost hopeless odds to check disease among China's war-weakened people, the reopening of the college will be a galvanizing shot...
General Marshall himself gave the signal for his return. His delicate tasks had won him respect and affection from both Communist and Kuomintang leaders, but his mission had been almost hopeless from the start. In recent months, it had been put beyond the pale of possibility by Nationalist military successes and the stubbornness of China's Communists. Still, George Marshall, the good soldier, wanted to see it through. When China's new constitution was signed and sealed a fortnight ago, his mission was over...
Spanish opponents of Franco, right and left, are currently in an apathetic, hopeless mood. They are bitterly disappointed at the U.N. resolution. Said a wealthy, anti-Franco monarchist: "I find this resolution to be a comedy. I do not think the United States or Britain want to upset Franco until they make some permanent arrangement with Russia...
...excellent results with three sulfa drugs: Promin, Diasone and Promizole (streptomycin, now under test, also looks promising). Last year the leprosarium discharged 37 patients, this year it will discharge 40 or more. Said its medical chief, Dr. Guy H. Faget: "The sulfones have stopped even the most hopeless cases in their tracks...
Disarmament (a last-minute agreement to consider same) was the big news, but New York's first U.N. Assembly meeting coped manfully with many another issue. Those it "disposed of" in any final sense were few and unimportant. But on none did the U.N. show tne hopeless confusion or bitter-end deadlock which SKeptics had predicted. Among the issues...