Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unit comes onto the field ten minutes before the game, it is keyed up by two hours of concentrated effort in blending "sound" and "action." It passes quickly into formations which only a day or two before were nothing more than ideas and, half an hour before, a seeming hopeless shambles...
...fares. The girls meekly surrender their dime, as a rule, but the male element jumps off and runs for a while (if he hasn't already been swept off by a passing car), regaining the trolley after the conductor has passed or has given the whole thing up as hopeless...
Richard Milhouse Nixon, dark, lank Quaker attorney who turned a California grass-roots campaign (dubbed "hopeless" by wheelhorse Republicans) into a triumph over high-powered, high-minded Democratic incumbent Jerry Voorhis. To beat Voorhis, ex-Navy Lieut. Commander Nixon, 33, passed around 25,000 white plastic thimbles labeled:-"Elect Nixon and needle the P.A.C." He plugged hard for veteran's housing, end of controls, a bipartisan foreign policy, politely avoided personal attacks on his opponent...
...week's end, the row was on. Objected Dr. Rolla E. Dyer, director of the National Institute of Health (in Cissie Patterson's Washington Times-Herald): "There is less & less reason every year for fear of old age. ... It is silly to talk about 'hopeless' [diseases] in these times." Cried Monsignor Robert E. McCormick, presiding judge of the ecclesiastical tribunal in New York's Catholic Archdiocese: "Anti-God, unAmerican, and a menace to veterans...
...Crimson's pass defense, it was neither superlative nor hopeless. Harlow declared after the game that he thought Paul Governali's work with the Varsity in last week's practice session had been of considerable benefit. On several of the successful Tiger aerials, the Nassau receivers were covered, but managed to outwrestle their Crimson defenders and grab the ball...