Word: hopelessness
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...though, it will be up to the courts to sort out the mess. The Maxwells acted to place the private company, the Robert Maxwell Group, into receivership after all attempts to raise fresh outside capital proved hopeless. John Talbot, the administrator appointed by the High Court last week to oversee the family's private holdings, said Maxwell's remaining assets were likely to be put up for sale. That includes the Maxwells' stock in Maxwell Communication as well as their 51% stake in the Mirror Group...
...morning of Dec. 10, more than 80 Japanese bombers caught the Prince of Wales on a glassy sea under a cloudless sky, vulnerable as a jeweled dowager surrounded by more than 80 switchblades. The warships zigzagged wildly as they unleashed a barrage of antiaircraft fire, but it was a hopeless mismatch. Two torpedoes tore apart the Prince of Wales' stern, disabling its rudder, filling its engine room with steam. The Repulse dodged nearly 20 torpedoes before four more ripped her open...
...tyrant's appeal transfigured a shell-shocked country. Suddenly a hopeless cause became the Great Patriotic War. Even those who hated Stalin -- like the novelist Victor Nekrasov -- remember rushing into combat crying "Za rodinu, za Stalina!" (For the motherland, for Stalin!). The reanimated Russians could also count on a perennial ally: Father Winter...
Rounding out the Ancient Eight is last year's cellar-dweller, Dartmouth. The Big Green went 4-10 last year and lost their top two scorers to graduation. This year, Coach Dave Faucher will look to sophomore gunner Gregg Frame to spark his hopeless team...
...down reached a peak during the Nixon era. Fearful that his enemies might succeed, Hoover began going through the confidential folders to determine which ones might prove damaging if they fell into the wrong hands. He had barely reached the letter c when he gave up the task as hopeless. After Hoover's death, his faithful secretary, Helen Gandy, had the personal files secretly transferred to the director's home. It took her 2 1/2 months to get rid of them all. Destroying the files may have been illegal, Gentry writes, but it was an honorable attempt to preserve Hoover...