Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York. From Rochester, where he merged the Union & Advertiser with the Times, he went on to combine Utica's Herald-Dispatch and Observer, Elmira's Telegram and Advertiser, Ithaca's News and Journal. He fought Hearst in Rochester (where W.R.H. spent $8,000,000 in a hopeless stab at putting F.E.G. out of business), and was himself driven to the ropes in Brooklyn, where he bought the old Eagle in 1929 and shucked it at a loss of $2,000,000 three years later. He never founded a paper, but he bought with an auditor...
...ASSISTANT, by Bernard Malamud. An aging Jewish Brooklyn grocer, a holdup and a thief's remorse seem hardly the substance of a good novel. This book becomes one through its tender, realistic grasp of the meanings, small defeats and even smaller victories in the lives of seemingly hopeless people...
...YORK, Dec. 10--A growing subway strike, worst in the city's history, converted New York today into a vast, hopeless traffic jam. Two-thirds of the city's rapid transit service was knocked...
While the outlook is far from hopeless for the varsity, the improvement shown by Yale during the season has brought it near the position of relative dominance that its championship predecessors held last year. The team the Crimson faces Saturday is far different from the Yale squad which lost to Brown in early October. The Elis had only five returning starters, and weren't expected to compare to last year's Ivy League title holders...
...Salazar's National Union into the rubber-stamp National Assembly. In Braga the opposition got, the government said, only 5,170 votes to 55,240 for Salazar's men. Its 40 days of "freedom" over, the opposition went back underground, and Salazar, who considers democracy a "hopeless system," went back to work on his plan to fashion Portugal, a loyal member of NATO, into a truly corporative state, unhampered by any elective bodies...