Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China the spring-legged fury with which the Jap pressed his drives showed that he knew last week that he had begun a battle in which his greatest enemy was time. For China was in a desperate plight, and the Jap worked fast to make it hopeless...
...safety, and he kept his vow. He has also kept an "older and far more unconscious vow": "In the days when I wrote my first verses I vowed that I would evermore and everywhere magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of man." For any save the most hopeless skeptic the story of Bernadette Soubirous, fully and devotedly told as it is here, is a strong recall toward "these ultimate values of our mortal lot." Her life is not merely, as Werfel says, "the greatest miracle of modern times," it is also the victorious pitting of the undefended and essential...
...Wild Beast. What happened was this: the ignorant, the primitive and the poverty-stricken believed and defended the miracle. Roused to .a pitch of hope such as seldom touches the earth's hopeless, they became as powerful a fact for the world to reckon with as the vision itself. Franz Werfel builds up a compassionate and ludicrous picture of how state, science and the Church handled this strange wild beast against which no weapons had been invented. Scientists trembled in scorn and terror at the challenge to their royalty over the century. The Church, sternly resolved to distinguish between...
Medically, the case is practically hopeless. Ortiz' diabetes, according to the doctors who reported to the Senate's investigating committee, is of the mellitus type, productive of small hemorrhages destructive of the eye's retina, though he is "able to perceive objects with the aid of strong sunlight and positive periscopic lenses." Dr. Castroviejo is, on the other hand, famed as the author of over 400 operations involving the grafting of a normal piece of cornea in a diseased eye. Reduced to one-syllable words, the doc is good but the case is bad. Chance of recovery...
...commodities, on allowances, discounts, etc., not only for OPA itself but for carping customers. This is an expensive nuisance to large retailers. But to the hundreds of thousands of small grocers, general merchants, etc., who keep records in an aboriginal way if at all, the clerical problem is almost hopeless. Lew Hahn thought that a lot of small fry would be put out of business if the recording provisions were strictly enforced...