Word: hopelessness
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...from reinforcement from his allies, cut off from any supplies-ammunition, guns and tanks-cut off in fact from any aid except such little air support as the British could send from Greece's small waterlogged airfields, General Simovitch might well have regarded his military position as nearly hopeless. But it is a Serbian feeling that men die in fighting, but nations die only in yielding...
...When the Jervis Bay, an unarmored merchant cruiser, went down after a heroic and hopeless engagement with a big German surface raider (TIME, Nov. 25), no picture was available in the U.S. of gallant Captain Edward Stephen Fogarty Fegan, who, with one arm shot away, stayed on the sinking wreck after ordering survivors to abandon ship. In response to Reader Hackett's inquiry, TIME gladly prints the best likeness of brave Fegan now obtainable...
Last week the combination of Lend-Lease and Yugoslavia suggested an answer to Pundit Walter Lippmann: Britain could not have landed in Greece without the assurance of U. S. aid. Without the promise of supplies, the prospect for Yugoslavia would have been so hopeless that no national resistance could have been organized. He wrote...
With these two key towns taken, the remnants of Benito Mussolini's Imperial Forces were completely hemmed in. Cut off from supply by sea, and also from escape by sea, they were in a virtually hopeless position. The British anticipated that they would make their next stand at the Awash River, 100 miles east of Addis Ababa...
Indirectly, Valedictorian Martin confessed that the job of Stock Exchange president was hopeless and thankless. Nobody knew whom the president was supposed to represent or what he was supposed to do. But fate had provided Bill Martin with a face-saving exit. Disinclined to plead exemption on the ground that his job is of civil importance, he is prepared to be drafted as soon as his number comes up (probably in May). Wall Street's Boy Wonder of 1938 is 1941's most willing draftee...