Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world, by the rising up of some furious young woman to call a policeman or pull the communication cord. And when he tries to explain himself, he is seized with a stammer which still further alarms the lady. The situation, as he expected from the beginning, then becomes hopeless. The lady has hysterics, and Herbert can only laff at the whole disaster...
...veils, comes to picnic in the ruins of the Cornish Castle of Tintagel. It soon develops that the romantic young man is in love with the beautiful young girl, even though she is married and her husband is along. About the time this situation has begun to look hopeless, both romantically and dance-wise, the indiscreet lovers drink to each other, and go into a magic-potion trance. The stage darkens, the ruins of Tintagel fly up, the dusters, derbies and veils come off, and in a flash the trippers have turned into Tristram, Iseult, King Mark & Co., all revealed...
...fortune from his annotated anthology, Some Limericks, but its obscenities would have made its open sale a criminal offense in Britain and the U.S. In describing a South Wind character, Douglas carved his own epitaph: "He knew too much, and had traveled too far, to be anything but a hopeless unbeliever...
...small group of Harvard men have been spending their summers for the past few years in part of the seemingly-hopeless task of restoring London's devastated East End both physically and spiritually. The men belong to a dedicated group known as the Winant Volunteers who pay their own way to England and back to work among London's Cockneys...
Looking on, Americans felt a division of loyalties. The cry of freedom in Egypt, though exploited by hotheads and irresponsibles, had an ancient appeal; so did the hopeless, helpless stand of the Egyptian troops (see below). Yet the British, too, disliked their unhappy role. Their defense of the Suez Canal, their insistence on the sanctity of international contracts, and their efforts to preserve order-compromised though these might be by past errors-added up to a defense of American strategic interests too. So, though U.S. emotional reactions might be divided, the U.S. response could...