Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lung Operations. Most dramatic is the removal of whole lungs (pneumonectomy) or parts of lungs (lobectomy)-a drastic operation which sometimes completely extirpates the disease. This operation was once so hazardous (about 35% mortality) that it was used only in otherwise hopeless cases. But Drs. Richard Overholt and Norman Wilson of Boston told the American Trudeau Society that the technique has now reached a point where the operation "should be considered" early in tuberculosis and not used as a last resort...
...farmer became Catherine's lover (they planned to marry after her divorce). Life ended again when the stallion was accidentally electrocuted, when her washed-out but repentant husband came to beg her to come home. Catherine decided that her new-found lover had better share a hopeless grave with the dead stallion...
...such case was two-year-old Patricia Malone (see cut) of Jackson Heights, Queens. The New York Journal-American, which begged enough penicillin from Dr. Keefer to save her life from staphylococcic septicemia, last week won the Pulitzer Prize for the story. After that, the whole nation watched one "hopeless" case after another get well...
...story (Paths of Glory); of coronary thrombosis; in Port Washington, L.I. His best-seller was his only published novel, and was written out of boredom with his Manhattan advertising job. A terse, heart-rending account of a sadistic French general who ordered his own men decimated after a hopeless attack had failed, it was adapted for the stage, got him a $1,000-a-week job in Hollywood. That also bored him, and at his death he was working for a Manhattan advertising agency...
Oddly in contrast to all this was the case of the British Empire. The world would never forget the Battle of Britain nor the debt it owed for the lone fight when the battle looked hopeless to the frightened. But the Empire, 55 months a combatant, had lost comparatively...