Word: hopelessness
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Father Kenny said that so long as the Cristeros (religious opposition) are without arms "the situation is hopeless." Nevertheless all the Cristeros have not lost hope. In Mexico City 40,000 Catholics blocked traffic for hours in "mute protest" against persecution of their Archbishop. In Magdalena, after local officials seized a 150-year-old statue of San Francisco Xavier, patron of the district, they gathered angrily in such numbers that troops were called to watch them...
...more dangerous trail to Cali fornia. To get her daughter Celeste away from Emmet, a rough-&-ready Westerner, her mother sees to it that they go in different directions. But luckily for the caravan, Emmet rejoins them later, guides them on their terrible journey through the mountains. In a hopeless attempt to save some who have been left behind. Emmet is frozen to death. Though Celeste makes no secret of the fact that she is carrying his child, her mother is reconciled: her trip has given her a broader view. As patriotic literature or red-blooded narrative The Westward Star...
...attitude toward General Johnson was that of a football crowd which sees a game but groggy player finally sent to the showers long after he should have been taken out of play. "He did the job," said the New York Herald Tribune. "Patriotic and gallant, but allied with a hopeless cause," said the Baltimore Sun. "No one could have tried harder," concluded the Chicago Tribune which hated him. In Los Angeles, the Times gave full credit for "good intentions." The Kansas City Star lamented his departure on the grounds that, while he was "a great showman," he was also...
...really significant events which are moving the world at large. But how to stir the American undergraduate body from its tradition of cynical lethargy and push it into the outskirts of the public struggle is a problem to tax the wisdom of a sage. A not entirely hopeless problem, however. Joe College, as we have seen, has passed on, and in his time he, too, must have seemed an irremediable "evil." --The Princetonian...
...pencil to the meeting where the report was read-usually so rapidly that no one could understand it. From Sir Douglas' grudging remarks, a stockholder usually gathered the impression that, what with rising taxes and general social unrest, the outlook for the sewing machine business was practically hopeless. Yet for years Singer profits ranged between $20,000,000 and $25,000,000 annually. The stock, traded inactively on the New York Curb, sold as high as $631 per share (last week's price: $185), and dividends ranged as high as $48 a year...