Word: hopelessness
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Banting found ways to get insulin from dogs without waiting for cell degeneration, then how to get ample quantities from the pancreas of cattle. The fateful question was: Would insulin save human diabetics? Joe Gilchrist, a doctor and a classmate of Banting's, was a thin, hopeless, broken diabetic living on the starvation diet that in those days postponed for a little while death from diabetic coma. He got some insulin. In a few hours his head was clear, his legs lost their heaviness, he felt as though he were walking on air. Joe Gilchrist...
...chief isolationist, Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, merely chuckled. For his strategic purposes, this irritated attitude was a good sign: consistently through the debate Wheeler and his henchmen have striven to assume the martyr's crown, to be regarded as a tiny group of courageous idealists struggling against hopeless odds. The tactic was working well, because the Administration strategy was failing. Majority Leader Alben Barkley had advised patience and silence, to let the isolationists wear themselves out. This plan of masterly inactivity had flopped frightfully. The isolationists were being supported enthusiastically by the nation's largest newspaper chains...
France did not collapse; France was beaten after a hopeless fight. Under the terms of the Armistice France may do nothing to help Britain-but France will do nothing to help Germany. France must collaborate with Germany until Germany loses the war, but France hopes Germany will lose. Meanwhile France must be fed, because starvation will drive France into Germany's arms...
...wonder drug, sulfanilamide, has cured apparently hopeless streptococcus infections, but it has also caused many a headache, and worse-nausea, dizziness, fever, even mild, temporary forms of insanity. For some patients, sulfanilamide is plain poison...
...half months after her first visit, Dr. Klein discovered that in addition to suffering from a tumor, his patient was several months pregnant. A month later, Mrs. Stemmer gave birth to a premature (three months) baby boy, weighing a little over a pound. The child was a hopeless idiot, deaf and blind...