Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...food & clothing, and an undetermined amount in building maintenance and new construction. Possible future savings in money and heartache are enormous : though only one quarter of the mental cases admitted to New York State hospitals are dementia praecox cases, the disease bedevils its victims so long, sometimes ending in hopeless deterioration, that such cases comprise 50 to 60% of the hospitalized mental patients. There are some 250,000 in U.S. hospitals...
...westward toward the Rhone valley, where the supply lines were better. In the south it seized Aries, Tarascon, and Avignon on the lower Rhone and crossed the river. Farther north it moved toward German garrisons at Montelimar, Valence and Lyons. By then the German escape route was a hopeless grid of Allied regulars and French irregulars...
...third day the battalion's plight seemed hopeless. Up the hill, under a white flag, came a shiny-booted SS officer. His ultimatum to the battalion's gaunt, lanky, black-bearded commander, Captain R. A. Kerley: surrender by 8 o'clock that night, or be destroyed-totally. Texan Kerley's reply: "Go to hell." Then he amplified: "I will surrender when every one of our bullets has been fired and every one of our bayonets is sticking in a German belly...
...madman's hopeless situation: there was no escape. But he was in a seagirt fort, approached only over a narrow bottleneck of land. The Americans had battled past Saint-Malo's ancient walls and towers, past modern pillboxes to this last fort, set 50 feet deep in the granite, crisscrossed with underground tunnels...
Once again, as I had seen them do on Attu and Tarawa, these strange little men had swept forward in a last hopeless, noisy, assault. The pattern was the same, only this time it was bigger. More than 3,000 of these mad, unreasoning, half-human creatures joined in it-the count may go as high as 5,000 by the time we have counted all their rotting bodies...