Word: hopelessness
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...While our situation is desperate, it is not hopeless," said Douglas. "The decision to evacuate Korea should be a military decision, not a political decision. If we leave, we should leave honorably, under gunfire ... It happens to be my division* which was up there in the north fighting its way out, and a great many of the enlisted men and the officers are my close and personal friends . . . I'm sure that their spirit is one which believes in resistance and does not believe in cowardly acquiescence...
Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner cried that "we should come home to our own country," while Hearst's other Los Angeles paper, the Herald & Express, was saying: "The situation is serious but not hopeless . . . With Chinese actually in Korea we can hit back for the first time." Next day, the Herald & Express also got its new orders from the chief. It reversed its field and asked: "Why should our boys die by the thousands in Korea...
...when all Scotsmen had to suffer under the English imputation that they were hopeless provincial boors, Boswell was torn between his loyalty to his fellow Scots and his own social aspirations. At a theater once, he leaped to the defense of two Highland officers who had been pelted with apples from the gallery and greeted with cries of "No Scots! No Scots!" Boswell was so aroused that he jumped up and roared back at the galleryites: "Damn you, you rascals!" But only three months later, he wrote in his journal: "Summer will come when all Scots will be gone. Then...
...wife sent a letter to the secretary in 1941, explaining her husband's activities and mentioning the "hopeless tragedy of his countrymen's life." Speaking of the violence in Puerto Rico, she said "the burying yards and jails have been filled with Puerto Rican patriots and unjust indictments are daily occurrences...
...victims range from 100,000 to 200,000. Last week, the recently formed Muscular Dystrophy Association met in Manhattan, decided to try to raise $250,000, largely to push research by Dr. Ade T. Milhorat at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. Its slogan: "Give hope to the hopeless...