Word: hopelessness
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...subordinate begged the ship's doctor to dope him so they could head home. While another captain was ashore, the first officer ordered the engines started, but the first engineer stalled for time until the captain returned. With patrolling British warships frequently in plain sight offshore, escape looks hopeless...
About five years ago a traveling salesman named Bill, after repeated alcoholic relapses, was pronounced hopeless by his doctors. Bill was an agnostic, but some one asked him if he couldn't believe that there was some power bigger than himself-call it God or whatever he liked-that would help him not to drink. The idea was that though Bill was always willing to let himself down, he might be more reluctant to let God down. Bill tried it, found that he had no trouble resisting the desire to drink. He was cured. He told his discovery...
...Navy, which is needed in the south to keep an eye on Mussolini (who also has four new battleships coming up), the present ratio of German to British capital ships is two to 13 (since the torpedoing of Royal Ock and a Queen Elizabeth). These odds are not so hopeless for Germany as they sound; only three of the British ships, the battle cruisers Hood, Repulse and Renown, can match the 30 knots of Germany's battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. The new German battleships will be equally fast, forming a homogeneous line of speedsters which will outweigh...
They performed a series of experiments on dogs, who had "burns of critical degree but not utterly hopeless." They found: 1) dogs which were given no fluids died in twelve hours; 2) dogs which received large quantities of water lived a little longer, but died, like the baby, in convulsions; 3) dogs which were given moderate amounts of salt and sugar solutions to maintain their "blood chemistry," and which received "repeated large transfusions of blood in addition . . . were able to survive the otherwise fatal shock." The doctors came to the conclusion that a stagnant circulation must be stimulated with extreme...
...slanders circulated-often by Bernard himself-about the Shaw clan. The Shaws, after all, he says, can be traced all the way back to 12th-Century Scotland, and it was perfectly outrageous for Bernard to portray them as shabby-genteel failures, and to label his own pa a hopeless and horrible drunk...