Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freckled, red-haired Red Army surgeon named Anatole Frumkin, of Moscow, has developed an international reputation by successfully repairing hundreds of these once hopeless wounds. Dr. Frumkin jokingly says he now gets so many inquiring letters from abroad that he could start the world's biggest mail-order business...
...Weyland's Nineteenth Tactical Air Command. Patton had told Weyland his right flank would be exposed and he wanted "Opie" Weyland to cover it. Weyland did. For three weeks his aircraft kept some 30,000 Germans pinned down south of the Loire, while Patton drove on. The hopeless German commander finally surrendered. When he gave up his sword to a Ninth Army commander, says the report, he "asked, to maintain German honor, that General Weyland's aircraft, which had conquered his units, should fly over his men before they laid down their arms...
...tougher. The Germans bat tled the First Army from buildings, tow ers, tunnels, vaults. They fought viciously until their plight was hopeless, then sur rendered mildly. They were found hiding in brick kilns and under beds. One group, chased out of an electric plant, ran to an apartment house next door and resumed the battle there. Four Germans were captured in a pillbox on the sixth floor of a paper mill...
Prostitutes and Rackets. Richard sold papers, worked in a drugstore, a credit clothing store, a brickyard, an optical factory. He was hopeless at each job. He could not cover up his feelings. He forgot to say "Sir," or said it too slowly. He did not know how to get out of white people's way. One of his bosses said, "Why don't you laugh and talk like other niggers?" The other Negroes privately talked a venomous, unrelieved hatred of the whites, but joked and laughed in their presence. Richard could not. Moreover, in crises-as when...
...Japs said that Japanese civilians would fight to the last if their homeland was invaded. Twenty-seven said that they would fight until it looked hopeless. Seventy-nine thought that they would not fight...