Word: hopelessness
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...looked almost hopeless, but ODT and the railroads were not just sitting around in tears. Last week, Defense Plant Corp. was prevailed upon to finance the building of 1,200 more troop sleepers and 400 boxcar kitchens-double the number now in use. If steel is available-and this was a big if-the new cars should be ready in the fall. But they may not be ready in time for this year's transportation crisis...
...Again on April 6, 1941, when the Panzer divisions pushed into Yugoslavia (Wavell's men, fresh from beating the Italians at El Agheila, made a gallant but hopeless attempt at rescue; three weeks later they were fleeing from the beaches of Greece, seven weeks later half the survivors were exterminated in the island of Crete...
...Americans said it meant a completely new Government. 3) The Russians interpreted "democratic" to mean their kind of "democracy," which they take very seriously and think suited to them and their cherished security in Eastern Europe. As War & the Working Class said last week: "It would be a completely hopeless business to demand that democracy in all European countries should be built exactly on the lines of the British or American example." Hopeless or not, Clark Kerr and Harriman insisted on democracy without Communist quotation marks. And that...
...French armor, backed by U.S. artillery and aircraft, began the flattening of German-held positions on both sides of the Gironde estuary, which had blocked the use of Bordeaux as a port. In three days the Allies captured Royan, main strongpoint on the north side of the Gironde. The hopeless Germans continued to battle bitterly...
...This was hopeless fighting for Japan. On factory walls, crumbling under the blast of 500-pound demolition bombs, they could almost read what was happening to them everywhere. Step by step General Douglas MacArthur was wresting away the Philippines. Last week his men moved south to Sanga Sanga and Bongao islands, only 30 miles from Britain's oil-rich Borneo, the island that was to have stoked Japan's factories. Bit by bit, their stolen empire was falling to ruins...