Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tipoff: it has been predicted that, bad as Army & Navy supply has been, OPM is so much more hopeless that the gambit now is to forget OPM, strengthen the services with business talent. The board that he heads must now attack the job of leading some 50% of U.S. industry...
...past I had always felt hesitancy in giving for China Relief. I was of the opinion that what mattered a few million more or less Chinese, that their situation was pretty hopeless anyway. I had contributed to our church (Presbyterian) mission work for schools and medical work, in the belief that education of the natives to work out their own salvation was the solid foundation which merited our support...
...Douglas MacArthur might still win. His position was desperate. It was likely to get worse. But it was not yet hopeless...
...wide open sky on a sandspit in midsea, just as it was back home, where stores bustled, and parti-colored lights blinked from the trees in a million windows. But for the Marines on Wake Is land it was the week when they fought and died in their last, hopeless stand...
...with a deluded rabble he had brought with him from the gutters of Hamburg. The Maryland aristocrat Peregrine Fitzhugh freed his 40 slaves to found a settlement of free Africans. Simcoe, Governor of Canada, still had hopes of retrieving the country for his King. Only the Indians were really hopeless...