Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...avoid interrogation, to minimize suffering, and increase their chances of survival. Easing the hardship of captivity demands every capacity of each prisoner of war. Yet the new conduct code fails our soldiers when it asks them to rely on their strength in a valiant but obviously hopeless attempt to convince Communist sympathizers of the fairness of American war morals...
Unhappy but Far from Hopeless. An other name that promptly came to the top of the list : Chief Justice Earl Warren, 64, another Californian. Speculation turned to him because he is a Republican of the Eisenhower pattern who showed, in California, that he could win strong support in both parties. Last April, Warren sought to take himself out of the running with a statement that he went to the Supreme Court with the fixed purpose of leaving politics permanently. Said he: "That is still my purpose. It is irrevocable. I will not change under any circumstances or conditions." Nevertheless...
...Presidential Assistant (for Disarmament) Harold Stassen, 48; Massachusetts Governor Christian Herter, 60. But all of the talking this week was being done by journalists and just plain voters. It would take Republican leaders quite a while to become accustomed to their new and unhappy-but by no means hopeless-situation...
...German negotiators were still counting their money and their fingers. One of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's colleagues described in shocked tones the ordeal of dealing with the Russians. "They squeeze you until blood comes from under your fingernails," he said. "They make you feel your position is hopeless. Then, in the last hour, they give you something you want in return for what they wanted in the first place. This happened to the Chancellor, and I cannot think of any German who could have acted differently than...
Impatiently, he insists that his own moral standards apply to his government, and he reacts with feeling to suggestions that this is a hopeless wish. "All right," says Nasser impatiently, "they are corrupt; they are dishonest; they are venal. But they will be incorrupt and they will be honest...