Word: hopelessness
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...fashion; he even published a book on the subject (The Fair Tax) that forcefully laid out the case for reform. This week his persistence will be vindicated by the votes of many of the same Senators who only a few months before had written off tax reform as a hopeless dream...
Leery of the disillusionment of the hopeless romantic, Elaine tries to emotionally back away from Peter all throughout the next day as she shows him the sights. (Apparently, there is something to see in Liverpool or so Director Bernard would have us believe.) Peter's a sailor. He's probably got a girl in every port. Maybe what she's feeling isn't love at all--just infatuation which will fade as soon as Peter's out of sight. Doubts vaporize as the two intertwine their fingers across the chain link fence on the docks beside Peter's ship, however...
...inner freedom for respite. Elizabeth Bouvia, a 29-year-old California woman confined to a % hospital bed by cerebral palsy, in constant pain, unable to control her body, has for several years been suing to make her doctors stop force-feeding her and allow her to die. Her hopeless condition has thrown her back upon her last freedom--the freedom to decide to die--and even that freedom has so far been denied...
...when the Crimson drew a penalty with a minute left, its cause looked hopeless...
...electronics technician because, as his wife Jane explains, "they said he was too slow and inattentive." Trey Smith, another Landmark enlistee, had similar symptoms and his own deep frustrations. A superb pulling guard at his Dallas high school, Smith saw a raft of football scholarships sink because of his hopeless transcript. Smith had known about his disability since he was eight; Thompson learned from a psychologist that he was dyslectic when he flunked out of Franklin. "No wonder I'm not making it," he thought at the time...