Word: hopelessness
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Scarcely had he settled to his task when his doctor friend begged him to come and irradiate his sister, who was dying of septicemia. Since the case was hopeless, the other physicians in the case consented. Mr. Knott irradiated the woman's blood; she recovered. Today she is strong and healthy, the mother of a husky child...
...fact the Union Committee has perhaps unconsciously sought to avoid this procedure by scheduling the review only thirty-six hours before the examination. It is perfectly apparent that any attempt to do the work of a half year of Music 1 in thirty-six hours would be worse than hopeless...
...France and Britain, King Leopold's 'was a ghastly decision, for the gallant Belgian Army was the vital left wing of their pocketed troops. The Belgian capitulation made the plight of Maxime Weygand's northern armies nearly hopeless. For Weygand needed planes, tanks, fresh divisions, and above all time to reorganize his Army, a sixth of whose best men had been cut off. All he had now was his own resourcefulness and the courage of France...
When young Dr. Adolf Meyer arrived in the U. S. from his native Switzerland almost 50 years ago, it was common practice to herd insane patients together like hopeless criminals...
...Holland Water Lines (third). They had mopped up most of the parachutists in and around Amsterdam. They still had The Hague, Leiden, Utrecht, Den Helder. They still held, with British and French, the island province of Zeeland in the rivers' mouths. But further resistance did indeed seem hopeless. Whole towns were bombed off the map. The flood water had not risen above the main causeway roads. Dutch glumness and anger at the surrender was directed chiefly at the Allies for not coming more strongly, Queen Wilhelmina for not staying...