Word: hopelessness
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...five is far from hopeless. Most of its errors were on the "if-at-first-you-don't-succeed" plane, and Floyd Stahl should be able to whip the boys into a pretty good fighting unit by the end of the month. But Henry Hibbard, George Boston, Dan Shields, and Dean Hennessy are lost for the rest of the year...
...next best thing-hit at the enemy's line of communications and created a diversion by occupying Cos, Leros and Samos." Sir Henry could not offer another but likely explanation: that, once again, "higher authority" had forced commanders in the field to undertake a hopeless venture...
...with the Nazis was worse than no union. For five years Austrians scurried over Europe, seeking support. They found none. Wistfully Radio Vienna played waltzes and the Viennese reminded each other of the difference be tween Berlin and Vienna: in Berlin, things might become serious, but they were never hopeless; in Vienna, things were often hopeless-but seldom serious...
...fang of dog actors. She is a he. The name used to be Pal. Pal was born the runt of his litter. For a while, Trainer Rudd Weatherwax, who readies quite a few dogs and cats for the screen, had given Pal up as histrionically hopeless. But when M.G.M. saw the first rushes for Lassie, they immediately upped Pal's salary from $90 to $250 per week. Even Pal's stand-in got $100 a week...
Through Calcutta's crowded streets a destitute army over 100,000 strong roamed foodless, homeless, hopeless. Families were jerked apart as mothers peddled daughters for a few rupees. Sons committed suicide to conserve scanty family stores. All around lay the hunger-shriveled dead awaiting, sometimes for hours, the arrival of corpse-removal squads...