Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...capitulation, did not tell his people. So Mussolini, who had vowed "to crush the kidneys" of the Greeks, went right on hurling his soldiers against the stubborn Greek wall, until he had lost 6,000 men. On Wednesday, April 23, when the Greek situation was clearly hopeless, General Tsolakoglou finally surrendered to the Italians...
...citizens and editors of London grew petulant last week over what seemed to them a gross blunder in British strategy: denuding Libya to undertake a hopeless campaign in Greece. The apparent threat to the Suez Canal had them scared. "This is no diversion," said the London Evening News. "Glossing it over with vague, official words of comfort-words which long since have lost all their par value on the public market-is mere futility. The blunt truth is that while we were sitting back easily congratulating ourselves on our triumphs over the Italians, the Germans got to work...
...from reinforcement from his allies, cut off from any supplies-ammunition, guns and tanks-cut off in fact from any aid except such little air support as the British could send from Greece's small waterlogged airfields, General Simovitch might well have regarded his military position as nearly hopeless. But it is a Serbian feeling that men die in fighting, but nations die only in yielding...
...quick petering-out. It is all rather as if, with boundless elan, a man started telling a dirty story to a nice old lady, realized his error in midstream, and tried in the same breath to finish it and to back out of it, winding up in a hopeless cachinnation of "uhs," "I-mean-to-says," and tongue-swallowings...
...When the Jervis Bay, an unarmored merchant cruiser, went down after a heroic and hopeless engagement with a big German surface raider (TIME, Nov. 25), no picture was available in the U.S. of gallant Captain Edward Stephen Fogarty Fegan, who, with one arm shot away, stayed on the sinking wreck after ordering survivors to abandon ship. In response to Reader Hackett's inquiry, TIME gladly prints the best likeness of brave Fegan now obtainable...