Word: hopelessness
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...Cork for Svengali. The time is after Stalingrad; the place is the Black Sea area. The German situation is hopeless, and the task of Corporal Rolf Steiner's wounded platoon is near-suicidal. Its job is to stay behind as a rearguard while the rest of the battalion withdraws. In the fluid state of the front, this means only one thing, that the hapless platoon will soon be a cork abob in a sea of Russians. The platoon has small faith in its chances, but believes mesmerically in Corporal Steiner, who has assumed command from his wounded sergeant. Steiner...
...Communist world. The details would require careful study, for the cold war has taken a turn that has boosted the stock of neutralists, encouraged U.S.-baiters in the Western Alliance (see FOREIGN NEWS), and set in motion powerful new anticolonial forces. But the job of fashioning counterplans would be hopeless if the U.S. first failed to take stock of its own basic role and mission in the world. Last week Dwight Eisenhower provided just such a stock-taking in an off the cuff speech before the Twelfth Annual Conference of the Advertising Council in Washington...
...Cameron and his colleagues are quick to admit that the ultimate solution is still far away. Under present methods of treatment, roughly half the nation's 700,000 cancer patients cannot possibly be cured, and many laymen think it senseless to prolong the agony of the hopeless cancer patient. To such doubters, Cameron answers in The Truth About Cancer...
True, the banishment of His Eminence, Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus, was "one of the most muddleheaded decisions of Prime Minister Eden's indecisive tenure"-but perhaps now the free world will realize and sympathize with the almost hopeless situation of this poor, small nation in its fight to be free of British domination...
Marion Tilton went to work in Japan for SCAP in 1946 to encourage the growth of Japan's silk industry, once the nation's biggest dollar earner. It seemed a hopeless job. A wartime government order scrapping silk looms as nonessential wrecked the industry in Japan, while U.S. scientists wrecked it abroad by giving women a new set of materials which no hard-working silkworm could hope to match...