Word: hopelessness
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Richard Milhouse Nixon, dark, lank Quaker attorney who turned a California grass-roots campaign (dubbed "hopeless" by wheelhorse Republicans) into a triumph over high-powered, high-minded Democratic incumbent Jerry Voorhis. To beat Voorhis, ex-Navy Lieut. Commander Nixon, 33, passed around 25,000 white plastic thimbles labeled:-"Elect Nixon and needle the P.A.C." He plugged hard for veteran's housing, end of controls, a bipartisan foreign policy, politely avoided personal attacks on his opponent...
...Crimson's pass defense, it was neither superlative nor hopeless. Harlow declared after the game that he thought Paul Governali's work with the Varsity in last week's practice session had been of considerable benefit. On several of the successful Tiger aerials, the Nassau receivers were covered, but managed to outwrestle their Crimson defenders and grab the ball...
...with men competing for the few available books on their assigned reading lists, the rooms constitute a continual migraine for both students and faculty. No section man can adequately explain the reading when many of the students have not done the work, and the students are left in a hopeless state of frustration by taking quizzes on subjects they know nothing about. The problem is a very simple one; there are too few books for too many...
...only fly in this scholastic ointment. In this case the Harvard student is crying wolf at his own shadow. Dashing into the reading rooms at noon on Saturday only to find that several hundred other students have the same idea, he naturally feels that it is a hopeless job and happily trots off to a football game. During the week the rush hours are in the afternoon and once again students are staggered and stymied by the sight of bulging reading rooms. The limited space and the scarcity of books present a sufficiently serious problem without students adding...
...with false credentials, fancy bombs, trick cameras, and guns disguised as pipes to befuddle the Germans. All sorts of little things, such as being sure to keep the fork in the left hand on account of that's the way Europeans eat, were impressed on the trainees. One hopeless jackass got tortured and killed later on in the movie because he slipped up on this very detail. Ladd, however, doesn't make any mistakes, and is the one member of the team "Applejack," sent to France to destroy a key railroad tunnel and to pick up sundry vital information...