Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...view . . . As Gandhi has said over and over again, in India we have been taught by our holy books that every religion is entitled to equal reverence, every religion contains the truth ... If you come here into free India . . . saying, 'My faith is good, your faith is hopeless, your faith is utter idolatry' . . . then it will not be a question of religion; it will be a question of law and order. People will not tolerate this...
...well-off industrial countries. Their medical science, shared with the best of motives, has cut death rates all over the world. Birth rates in the backward areas have not fallen much. Unless they fall much faster, he says, most of the world will become a permanent and hopeless slum...
Albizu & Co., products of a bitter and seemingly hopeless past, are being isolated from their countrymen by progress. But partly because of their complete political failure they are, for the present, a serious terrorist menace, a "clear and present danger" against which the Puerto Rican authorities took the obvious action...
...Navarre. "She does not give herself except to those who know how to take her." But if Navarre knew how, the French Cabinet back home seemed very tired. "How do you think it feels." said one politician, "to fight alone for seven years in a war that is militarily hopeless, politically dead-end and economically ruinous." Bao Dai's special congress did not help French morale by voting, roundly, that it wanted no part of the French Union in its present form. And in July 1953, the U.N. negotiated a truce in Korea. Across France a great cry swelled...
Coach Bob Pickett's varsity wrestling team will be at Ithaca today and tomorrow as an underdog but not hopeless contender in the eastern intercollegiate tournament...