Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place was full and peasants were still coming in, when the church bells rang the alarm for approaching airplanes. The towns-people who crowded the narrow streets knew the alarm meant that something horrible would follow, but many of them had never seen an airplane. They milled about in hopeless confusion till a Catholic priest took charge and told them to seek refuge in cellars and dugouts...
...voulut faire un délicat." At ten he spoke Greek and Latin fluently, discussed "the deepest problems of metaphysics and religion" with a friend, aged twelve. When François's father died, the boy felt "a haunting sense of the vanity, the transience, the hopeless precariousness of merely human happiness. . . . While the religious wars lasted, France had to endure all the horrors of massacre and depredation, of plague and famine, of lawlessness and political anarchy. ... It was in these years . . . that François Leclerc became ... a firm believer in absolute monarchy and an ardent nationalist...
Service, deliberately chose Latin America as the most important field, in a day when Pan-American posts were regarded as hopeless holes. The Department played its ancient jest on him: he was sent to Tokyo. In two years in Japan he conceived an abiding distrust and dislike of the Japanese, and in 24 years has seen no reason to change his views...
...stand on Seminary Ridge at Gettysburg and look across the valley at the slope of Little Round Top, you can see why General Longstreet thought it was hopeless to try to take that hill. Now the scene is quiet; the bronze generals stare sightlessly at each other in the forest of statues; the cannons are now cannons in a park. But at dawn on July 2, 1863, when General Longstreet looked across at the ridge occupied by General Meade, the woods were alive with Union soldiers, 339 Union cannons were in the field; and Little Round Top on the Union...
...matter what happens to Britain? Does the President mean to let Britain go after all? His declaration of aid for Russia did not support this view. But the theory that he would revert to a new, super-New Deal isolationism if he came to believe Britain's cause hopeless has seeped underground in Washington for a long time. It flourished among New Dealers even during periods when the President, being assailed as a warmonger, was damning isolationism. They chattered that: 1) the President decided after Dunkirk that Britain could not win; 2) if Britain falls, the U.S. will painlessly...