Word: hopelessness
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...explosions on the night air. Bright lights "like tiny suns" shredded the sky, as Chinese troops concealed outside the city set off hundreds of rounds of rockets, star shells and other pyrotechnics. Terror-stricken civilians ran through the streets. The cry went up that Chamdo was surrounded and resistance hopeless...
Said an American captain: "You can't keep them off the tracks. Sometimes as many as four or five are killed in a single night. Most of them just get confused. But I guess some of them get so tired and hopeless that they just don't care enough any more...
Isolationism had become a bad word; most isolationists did not like to be called that. "These policies I have suggested," said Herbert Hoover, "would be no isolationism. Indeed, they are the opposite. They would avoid rash involvement of our military forces in hopeless campaigns. They do not relieve us of working to our utmost . . . We shall not fail in this even if we have to stand alone...
Korea, said he, was a "costly and staggering extravaganza." Postwar handouts to Western Europe had netted the U.S. not one "foul-weather friend." And the United Nations was a "hopeless instrumentality for world peace." Joe Kennedy, though as fervently anti-Communist as anyone could wish, favored abandoning Asia and Europe in the face of "massed manpower and military strength of a type that the world has never seen." He would concentrate U.S. troops and arms strictly in the Western Hemisphere...
...where BCG has been widely used, the tuberculosis death rate has been reduced over the last two decades from 71 to 19 per 100,000 inhabitants. But socially conscious Denmark has gone further than most nations in eliminating the factors that encourage tuberculosis. In lands where all else is hopeless, BCG has been given a fairer chance to make a statistical case for itself. Throughout the crowded, war-torn areas of Europe and the East, where general health conditions are at their worst, the International Tuberculosis Campaign, jointly sponsored by several U.N. and Red Cross organizations, has injected some...