Word: hopelessness
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...would, if necessary, stay until his term ended in 1959 and "the warden kicks me out." Corpier had a compelling reason for such a decision: if he could prepare his students to qualify for FCC licenses, they would surely find jobs once they got out. "It's pretty hopeless for them if nobody is willing to help," said he. "How can a man go straight if he can't find work...
Ballots & Bail. Jimmy spent 25 years building his army among the hard-put widows and workingmen in his district. At Christmastime and Thanksgiving, he handed out turkeys to neighborhood families. He bailed out errant youngsters and toughs, whispered pleas to magistrates, found jobs for the hopeless. He swept into local political primaries with ballot stuffers and phony votes, wrecked opposition organizations, beat off a Tammany headquarters attempt to stamp him out, maintained absolute power in his district...
...grave classroom shortage is one of the chief reasons educators are requesting federal aid to school construction. Public school enrollment is growing at the rate of one million pupils a year and, because states are unable to increase construction proportionally, many schools must choose between hopeless overcrowding and shortened double sessions. Federal aid would help state educators to catch up with the birth rate, and would leave some state funds for much needed increases in teachers' salaries...
...muscle itself. This is caused by atherosclerosis, i.e., branches of the coronary arteries are plugged with fatty material, leaving the muscle starved of blood. If this happens gradually, it causes angina pectoris; if suddenly, a heart attack. Surgeons in general have long neglected the problem because it seemed so hopeless...
...Whenever possible, the Harvard Admissions office has estimated a potential candidate's chances, and discouraged hopeless or marginal cases...