Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Topic: gastric cancer, most hopeless of all cancers...
...detected early, Dr. Ivy observed, stomach cancer is far from hopeless. An operation removing part or all of the stomach may prolong life five to ten years. But once a stomach cancer spreads to the liver, the patient is doomed; though man can do without a stomach, he cannot survive without a liver...
...strike was strung out and coal shipments were completely stopped, European nations would be thrown into the lap of Communism. There was at least some basis for Eaton's international fears. All the world watched. In cold & hungry Asia, in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Saigon and Singapore, among the hopeless of Europe and the always hopeful of the British Isles the coal strike was front-page news...
...York, where his doctor had discovered a tuberculous spot on one lung, energetic Tsuyee Pei refused to be invalided, instead became a capable governor of the Central Bank of China. Scrupulously honest and immensely clever, Pei has brought 30 years of experience to bear on his nearly hopeless task, has failed to stabilize China's currency but at least has put brakes...
...spot an incipient alcoholic. A drinker who 1) gulps his drinks, 2) sneaks a few on the side, 3) worries about his liquor consumption, 4) stops talking about his drinking, 5) begins to "pull blanks" (i.e., forgets what happened during his bouts) is likely to become a hopeless drunk within two years...