Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Molotov finally offered a compromise-putting Trieste under dual Italo-Yugoslav sovereignty. But growing clashes between Italians and Slovenes in the city already showed how hopeless such a plan would be. When Byrnes turned it down, Molotov snapped: "If you mean that no compromise is possible, why not say so?" Byrnes shot back: "Because it isn't true. I have accepted several compromises. . . . So far as I can see you have retreated nowhere...
Some time later, Kravchenko got a glimpse of the "horrors of collectivization." In one village, "guarded by GPU soldiers with drawn revolvers, stood about twenty peasants. . . . A few of them were weeping. The others stood there sullen, resigned, hopeless. So this was 'liquidation of the kulaks as a class'! A lot of simple peasants being torn from their native soil, stripped of all their worldly belongings...
...inhabitants, stretching from the edge of the Slav lands across the heart of Europe to within a hundred miles of the French frontier. It was a country whose life was drawn & quartered by four jealously sealed occupation zones, whose economy was nearly dead, whose hungry, tired people were nearly hopeless. To a world heavy with sorrow, it was a country whose very misery seemed unimportant, except in terms of the great struggle between Russia and the West...
Quezon's Problem. Forty years earlier, a young guerrilla under Aguinaldo, Quezon himself had surrendered on Bataan to U.S. forces. According to one of the most candid chapters in The Good Fight, this veteran of another Bataan defeat soon decided that the situation under MacArthur was hopeless. At one point he asked himself whether "any government has the right to demand loyalty from its citizens" if it could no longer protect them. At another he considered giving himself up to the Japanese-not, he protests, out of disloyalty but because, in a way he never makes clear, he thought...
...long time many American psychiatrists looked upon alcoholics as hopeless cases. A growing number now agree that pathologic drinkers can be treated medically-and a certain number cured-if they have 1) a genuine desire to be helped; 2) average intelligence; 3) some emotional maturity (a "brake power"); 4) an undamaged brain...