Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americans said it meant a completely new Government. 3) The Russians interpreted "democratic" to mean their kind of "democracy," which they take very seriously and think suited to them and their cherished security in Eastern Europe. As War & the Working Class said last week: "It would be a completely hopeless business to demand that democracy in all European countries should be built exactly on the lines of the British or American example." Hopeless or not, Clark Kerr and Harriman insisted on democracy without Communist quotation marks. And that...
...French armor, backed by U.S. artillery and aircraft, began the flattening of German-held positions on both sides of the Gironde estuary, which had blocked the use of Bordeaux as a port. In three days the Allies captured Royan, main strongpoint on the north side of the Gironde. The hopeless Germans continued to battle bitterly...
...Bastion. On the eastern front, the Nazis were losing Vienna in a bloody, costly, hopeless battle. It was too late for considerations of prestige. The alarming thing was that, at Vienna, the Russians had reached the eastern approaches of the Alpine bastion...
...This was hopeless fighting for Japan. On factory walls, crumbling under the blast of 500-pound demolition bombs, they could almost read what was happening to them everywhere. Step by step General Douglas MacArthur was wresting away the Philippines. Last week his men moved south to Sanga Sanga and Bongao islands, only 30 miles from Britain's oil-rich Borneo, the island that was to have stoked Japan's factories. Bit by bit, their stolen empire was falling to ruins...
Across the shrinking Nazi realm writhed columns of civilian refugees, hungry, pan icky, desperate. Remnants of the Wehrmacht, cut off, cut up, were dissolving into a hopeless, fugitive mob. Great centers like Frankfurt (see below) and Mannheim had become ghost cities, stark in their architectured wreckage, starker in their human disintegration. The few Germans left behind were unheroic, impenitent, apathetic, sullen, unable or unwilling to believe what had happened. The diehards were mostly adolescent gangs, leftovers of Hitler Youth, who fought street battles between themselves, spied on Allied authorities and sometimes flung grenades into Allied trucks...