Word: hopelessness
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...presumably the U.S. and British leaders knew what they were about. General Wilson's performance in Greece was skillful in a hopeless "operation, dictated by political necessity. The Aegean show also was probably ordered from London for political reasons...
Want ads in current German newspapers tell a story of hopeless retreat from Russia, of hopeful return to the homeland...
...Eighty per cent of the population of some villages has been wiped out. Countless thousands of children are orphans. I have seen orphanages where children died at the rate of 20 a day and in other homes, still-living foundlings condemned as hopeless and their bodies placed in a room already strewn with dead children...
...Negro Problem, he concludes, is grim but not hopeless. It "represents nothing more and nothing less than a century-long lag of public morals. In principle, the Negro problem was settled long ago; in practice, the solution is not effectuated. The Negro in America has not yet been given the elemental civil and political rights of formal democracy. . . . This anachronism constitutes the contemporary 'problem...
...bitter truth was out: recruiting for the WAC has been such a failure that officials last week admitted they were hopeless of filling their quota, figure they will be lucky to keep even a trickle of recruits coming in. War Department officials are afraid they may have got virtually all the women volunteers they ever will get. WAC aim for 1943 was an enrollment of 150.000. Present strength: a little over...