Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the Nazis was worse than no union. For five years Austrians scurried over Europe, seeking support. They found none. Wistfully Radio Vienna played waltzes and the Viennese reminded each other of the difference be tween Berlin and Vienna: in Berlin, things might become serious, but they were never hopeless; in Vienna, things were often hopeless-but seldom serious...
...fang of dog actors. She is a he. The name used to be Pal. Pal was born the runt of his litter. For a while, Trainer Rudd Weatherwax, who readies quite a few dogs and cats for the screen, had given Pal up as histrionically hopeless. But when M.G.M. saw the first rushes for Lassie, they immediately upped Pal's salary from $90 to $250 per week. Even Pal's stand-in got $100 a week...
...when Francisco was six years old the Spanish Navy sailed out on its brave, hopeless campaign against the upstart Yanqui tinpots and presently ceased to be a going concern. Having no warships to speak of, the Spanish Government decided to shut the Naval Academy down; 14-year-old Francisco went instead to the military academy in the Alcazar of Toledo. If he had followed his planned career he might have been a captain or admiral by 1936, when rebel naval officers were heaved over the sides of their warships by Loyalist crews...
Through Calcutta's crowded streets a destitute army over 100,000 strong roamed foodless, homeless, hopeless. Families were jerked apart as mothers peddled daughters for a few rupees. Sons committed suicide to conserve scanty family stores. All around lay the hunger-shriveled dead awaiting, sometimes for hours, the arrival of corpse-removal squads...
...remember a worrisome young man who, one day, came back from the roentgenoscopic room wringing his hands and trembling with fear. It is all up with me.' he said. 'The X-ray man said I have a hopeless cancer of the stomach.' Knowing that the roentgenologist would never have said such a thing, I asked, 'Just what did he say?' and the answer was that on dismissing him, the roentgenologist said to an assistant, 'N.P.' In Mayo Clinic cipher this meant 'no plates,' and indicated that the roentgenologist was so satisfied...