Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patient's difficult and responsible task to provide the clues that will guide the doctor to the right diagnosis. If the attempt fails, it must be repeated...with a different doctor, for there is nothing more hopeless than to try to change the mind of a doctor who has once reached a diagnosis...
These efforts combined, the Payne Whitney doctors believe, will carry forward the process which has already raised psychiatry from the management of hopeless Bedlams to the practice of one of the hopeful arts of healing...
...feature of French history. Sand's enemies declared that in her struggle to overcome it she devoured men like an insatiable ogress. She imposed her own frigidity, they said, as a punishment upon the other sex, never happy until she had reduced her lovers to a condition as hopeless...
...public schoolboys in Britain -not even excluding Tom Brown-none is better known or more persistent than Billy Bunter of Greyfriars. A round, owlish fellow, he is forever stealing other chaps' "tuck" (cakes, cream puffs, tarts, toffee). He is hopeless at athletics, can't seem to spell ("I wood have toled you myself but you wood not lissen . . ."), is perpetually in a "digamma," and is constantly delivering such Bunterisms as "How sharper than a thankless child it is to have a toothless "serpent...
Hospital at Stoke Mandeville, Dr. Ludwig Guttmann, a German neurosurgeon who came to Britain in 1939. During the war Surgeon Guttmann became interested in the plight of paraplegics, invalids whose cases were sometimes written off as hopeless by the medical profession. In 1944, Guttmann went to Stoke Mandeville, with one patient, to see if some form of physical activity could help...