Word: hopelessness
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...people are mainly dependent on a single water supply nearly 100 miles in length "I believe that we are facing a grave national emergency fraught with the possibility of immediate peril. I know that we are unprepared but I am confident that it is not a hopeless situation." These were some of the plainest words to which the public had been treated by men in responsible positions. The commit tees, whether or not they agreed with everything Colonel Stimson and Colonel Knox said, approved the appointments 14-10-3 and 9-10-5 respectively...
...Empire reformer Philip Kerr edited the Round Table, a scholarly journal of political philosophy. As Lloyd George's secretary during World War I, he made two secret journeys to Switzerland to try to convince Austrians that further fighting was hopeless. As a peacemaker, he was with Lloyd George at Versailles, played a part in drafting the Versailles Treaty which he has since criticized. As Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for India in the MacDonald Cabinet, he sat in the endless Round-Table Conferences on the Indian Constitution, visited Delhi (where he was greeted with a sign reading "Lothian...
Though the peace story ran its course in less than a week, it had had its intended effect. It had shaken Britain's faith in her leaders, had probably increased isolationist sentiment in the U. S. by making U. S. citizens believe that Britain's cause was hopeless. It was Hitler's old familiar technique of waging war with words. With rumors, fear, suspicion diabolically sown, he had again set out to demoralize his enemy before the cannon spoke...
...strengthening of our democratic system and for powerful de fense against the bloodthirsty brutalitarians. . . . Equally important and equally indispensable is an immediate program for the economic rehabilitation of our twelve million unemployed whose morale is shattered and whose allegiance to democracy is tenuous because the hungry and the hopeless fail to see what they are called upon to defend. . . . We rabbis must do more than echo the despair and perplexities of our people. We must bring to them a message of hope, rekindle their faith, inspire them with fortitude and courage...
...Virgil Kinney Hancock, noted Seattle obstetrician, began to try irradiation on hopeless streptococcic and staphylococcic bloodstream infections, with great success. Several years later, he was followed by Drs. Elmer William Rebbeck of Pittsburgh and Henry Alfred Barrett of Manhattan. Last year, after they told him of several thousand successful cases, Dr. George Miley of Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital began to put in full time on irradiation, working up case histories, preparing careful fever charts, blood-count tables...