Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief isolationist, Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, merely chuckled. For his strategic purposes, this irritated attitude was a good sign: consistently through the debate Wheeler and his henchmen have striven to assume the martyr's crown, to be regarded as a tiny group of courageous idealists struggling against hopeless odds. The tactic was working well, because the Administration strategy was failing. Majority Leader Alben Barkley had advised patience and silence, to let the isolationists wear themselves out. This plan of masterly inactivity had flopped frightfully. The isolationists were being supported enthusiastically by the nation's largest newspaper chains...
...wonder drug, sulfanilamide, has cured apparently hopeless streptococcus infections, but it has also caused many a headache, and worse-nausea, dizziness, fever, even mild, temporary forms of insanity. For some patients, sulfanilamide is plain poison...
...half months after her first visit, Dr. Klein discovered that in addition to suffering from a tumor, his patient was several months pregnant. A month later, Mrs. Stemmer gave birth to a premature (three months) baby boy, weighing a little over a pound. The child was a hopeless idiot, deaf and blind...
...when the shrill horn of plenty was heard in the rest of the land, did little to cheer the literary consciousness of the South. In those years Carson Mc-Cullers grew up in Columbus, Ga. with a hopeless passion for good music, fine writing, kindly human relationships. Her family was not well off, her opportunities were limited, her observations bitter. At 20 she married a fellow Southerner and started work on her first novel, a long, cloudy story of a deaf-mute. Appearing last year under the publishers' makeshift title of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter...
...Coward's cycle of nine short plays called Tonight at 8:30 she surprised every one with her emotional flexibility, playing not only Mayfairian parts, but a shrewish lower-class wife whose husband revolts from their sodden routine, and a romance-starved middle-aged woman beginning and ending a hopeless affair in a railroad station restaurant. By the middle '30s it had become clear that while Gertrude Lawrence might not be the perfect understudy for Katharine Cornell, the versatile Miss Lawrence could come a great deal closer to putting across Juliet than Miss Cornell could to putting across Someone...