Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fanaticism is also disturbing. A Brooklyn private, describing the banzai shout, told Bigart: "It had kind of a weird sound, like Ladies' Day at Ebbets Field." Wrote Bigart: "The German . . . rarely tries suicide tactics. When a mission becomes hopeless the German gives up. But the Japanese never does...
China's Soldier. In March 1942, General Stilwell went back to China, plunged immediately into the hopeless task of holding Burma against the Japs. His famed retreat across Burma ("I say we took a hell of a beating") did not shake his faith in the Chinese soldier. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek supported Stilwell, at first. So did his great & good friend, U.S. Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall...
...Hopeless Prospect. Everybody's Political What's What is not likely to reduce Shaw's income much. A book of 380 pages and 44 chapters, it covers the ponderous questions: Is Human Nature Incurably Depraved? ("If it is, reading this book will be a waste of time . . .") and The Land Question ("It is so fundamental that if we go wrong on it everything else will go wrong automatically"). The book has more than its share of the humorously wreathed sagacity that Shaw las offered British life & letters for the past 70 years...
...long been a British sphere of influence and London was anxious to keep it so after the war. There was poetic justice in the return of the British for the redemption of Greece. In 1941 they had risked Egypt to aid the Greeks, lost 15,000 men in a hopeless, 24-day retreat. But the Greeks, who also fought bravely, have starved and died for three years. Resentment against British political policies has grown. Whether food and medicine would win them back was still uncertain...
There was mud again in Flanders, churned up by last week's heavy rains. The Nazis were putting up stubborn battles for the Channel ports-hopeless, losing battles in which soldiers would die quite as definitively as in glorious victories. In short, the reconquest of the Channel coast was an ugly, thankless job. But the Canadians, whose job it was, were actually happy...