Word: hopelessness
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...plan to make the Republican pre-convention campaign a testing ground for his liberal principles, the other candidates, anxious to avoid Republican dissension, refused to engage in primary rough & tumble with him or even with one another. If primaries selected only uninstructed delegates or delegates pledged to hopeless favorite sons, the Republican candidate would certainly be picked by political horse-trading at the convention. Sure that no dawn-lit face would emerge from a smoke-filled hotel room after midnight, Senator Borah set out to force the issue...
...unsuspecting son. From this point on the depth of feeling increases between Yamano, who still desires Kimi, and his son, who can only resent without understanding his father's prohibition of further visits to her. In the end the traditional power of the family and the apparently hopeless future for Shigeo's type of liberalism in Japan prevail over the love of the young people, and instead of risking marriage they commit suicide together...
...Hopeless Back Number...
...last play I saw was a clincher, a final convincing argument that I was a hopeless back number. It was not that all of the men in the case were cheaters, and all of the women but one. I am quite used to that now. It was the line which built up the entrance of the only maiden (in name only...
...Kansas City is Boss Tom Pendergast with his redoubtable political machine. To other Congressmen their lesser risk seemed well worth taking: Jasper Bell, at the worst, would probably be able to discredit the Townsend Plan by showing that a lot of oldsters' dues money was going down a hopeless drain...