Word: hopelessness
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...feel that I attract attention no matter how I behave is frightening; to feel that those protecting me are working under the same presumptions as those I fear leaves me feeling hopeless and angry. Emily R. Sharp
...Western allies are not enthusiastic about an economic boycott, and trade between the U.S. and Iran is virtually nonexistent. A naval blockade of Iran could hurt Western Europe and Japan and cause a further rise in world oil prices. A military rescue mission appears to be a hopeless enterprise...
...press conference: "Q. Senator, what do you think of the new poll that shows you an overwhelming victor in North Dakota? A. I wish I could believe it, but it's wrong. I'm going to get crushed in that state. Q. If it's that hopeless, why are you flying back there after lunch? A. Well, we do have this afternoon to turn it around." Will Church again turn to humor after this week's story? No, he says: "Today's inflation is no laughing matter...
...heart attack; in Hamburg, West Germany. Linge denied Moscow's story that Hitler had dispatched himself with cyanide, maintaining that he used a pistol. Was Adolf mad in his final days? Never, the faithful servant Insisted; he killed himself only for the quite rational reason that "everything was hopeless...
...groups during the lunch hour to exchange murmured bits of gossip that might supplement the meager medical bulletins. Each day last week, small crowds huddled in front of the medical center in Ljubljana, the Slovenian capital, where Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito continued to wage a formidable but apparently hopeless struggle for his life...