Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presumably the U.S. and British leaders knew what they were about. General Wilson's performance in Greece was skillful in a hopeless "operation, dictated by political necessity. The Aegean show also was probably ordered from London for political reasons...
Tall, temperate General Dusan Simovich saw that his nation had reached a decisive hour. In March 1941 he had led Yugoslavia in the historic, hopeless revolt against Nazi domination. Now, from exile in London, he broke a long silence, urged his factious countrymen to unite under the Liberation banner of fighting Marshal Tito. Exhorted Dusan Simovich...
...Hospitable Deserts. When Roman civilization collapsed, gentle spirits tried to flee the almost hopeless world by becoming solitary hermits in the wastelands. Later groups of hermits gathered together for security and company in loose associations...
...Weekend, an unevenly brilliant first novel, the sense of damnation is strong. But even stronger is the sense of suspense−will he escape? why can't he escape? why doesn't the damn fool answer that telephone?0−which is the quality that makes the hopeless tale into a horror story, luring the reader on and on to the inconclusive but hopeless...
...Eighty per cent of the population of some villages has been wiped out. Countless thousands of children are orphans. I have seen orphanages where children died at the rate of 20 a day and in other homes, still-living foundlings condemned as hopeless and their bodies placed in a room already strewn with dead children...