Word: hopelessness
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...long been a British sphere of influence and London was anxious to keep it so after the war. There was poetic justice in the return of the British for the redemption of Greece. In 1941 they had risked Egypt to aid the Greeks, lost 15,000 men in a hopeless, 24-day retreat. But the Greeks, who also fought bravely, have starved and died for three years. Resentment against British political policies has grown. Whether food and medicine would win them back was still uncertain...
...food & clothing, and an undetermined amount in building maintenance and new construction. Possible future savings in money and heartache are enormous : though only one quarter of the mental cases admitted to New York State hospitals are dementia praecox cases, the disease bedevils its victims so long, sometimes ending in hopeless deterioration, that such cases comprise 50 to 60% of the hospitalized mental patients. There are some 250,000 in U.S. hospitals...
There was mud again in Flanders, churned up by last week's heavy rains. The Nazis were putting up stubborn battles for the Channel ports-hopeless, losing battles in which soldiers would die quite as definitively as in glorious victories. In short, the reconquest of the Channel coast was an ugly, thankless job. But the Canadians, whose job it was, were actually happy...
...westward toward the Rhone valley, where the supply lines were better. In the south it seized Aries, Tarascon, and Avignon on the lower Rhone and crossed the river. Farther north it moved toward German garrisons at Montelimar, Valence and Lyons. By then the German escape route was a hopeless grid of Allied regulars and French irregulars...
...madman's hopeless situation: there was no escape. But he was in a seagirt fort, approached only over a narrow bottleneck of land. The Americans had battled past Saint-Malo's ancient walls and towers, past modern pillboxes to this last fort, set 50 feet deep in the granite, crisscrossed with underground tunnels...