Word: hopelessness
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...terms that Stevenson, had he been in the White House, would probably have been forced to reject in order to prove to the country that he was a loyal American. The President calmed down the country when the Chinese shot at airplanes, and he kept us out of a hopeless war in Indo-China when his own Vice-President was urging action. And most important, the President went to Geneva, where he became chummy with the Soviets and apparently convinced them that neither the East nor the West could afford to bear the guilt of starting the Third, and last...
...Marlboroughs, all of whose five sons died young, left to no one their remarkable gusto for such a role. One of Sarah's more enterprising daughters formed a liaison with a "low poet" of the Restoration named Congreve, and the son she bore died a hopeless drunkard. This was an omen perhaps of the centuries the family would lie fallow until another Churchill, half American by blood (great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson of John and Sarah), would rise to rally and astonish the Western world...
...Wherever possible the Admissions Office has estimated a potential candidate's chances, and discouraged hopeless or marginal applications...
...report on 687 patients, 285 of whom died within i½ to nine months of beginning treatment. All but seven are described as having been in the "terminal" or hopeless stage, and in 97% the disease was said to be progressing. Of 189 who got four or more doses, 23 lived four years or more, and 18 of these survived because of "Krebiozen or natural causes"; there was some evidence in some cases that the cancers shrank. The Ivy team's conclusions : 1) Krebiozen had "palliative potency," as distinct from a curative effect, in 68% of patients with different...
Even these well-hedged claims faced certain rejection by top authorities in cancer research and treatment. One cancer expert was quick to doubt that Dr. Ivy's 23 survivors had been, as claimed, in a hopeless stage of the disease to begin with, or that their survival had any medical significance: many patients with a variety of cancers have survived for unpredictably long times with scant treatment of any kind. Moreover, other doctors pointed out, several of the patients got other treatments (X rays, hormones or surgery) besides Krebiozen, and it was impossible to sort out the effects...