Word: hopelessness
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...soon hopeless spinsters, Abyssinian slaves, beggars and poor cousins of Mohammed leaked it out that his vigils were to confer with the angel Gabriel, who was repeatedly confiding that of the sundry gods then worshiped in Arabia, Allah was the only god and he, Mohammed, was His rasul (prophet). The powerful Koreish clan in Mecca scowled. Mohammed's friends, now dubbed Moslems (traitors) found it best to keep his revelations secret. It was four years before their number was great enough for him to broach his mission openly in Mecca...
...Briand, paradoxically continued to support his Left Cabinet lest the franc collapse. Deputies of the Left, angered at M. Briand's disregard of their views, deserted him. Though M. Briand could and did obtain a vote of confidence by a majority of 114, the situation had become a hopeless tangle. Stabilization of the franc could not be accomplished with the freak support of a Chamber "majority of enemies...
...tweed jacket on. Hagen's silk shirt invited breezes. He smiled. At the seventy-first tee he lay on the ground for a brief rest, then rose, sent a perfect drive down the fairway. Mitchell sliced his iron shot. Hagen, standing blandly by, watched him make a hopeless try for recovery, then holed his own putt and turned to oblige the camera men. He had won, at 2 up and 1 to go, the (unofficial) professional championship of the world...
...There are 100,000 Hungarians who would forge francs today to save Hungary. I myself am ready to throw law and convention overboard if it would help my country. Hungary's position now is so hopeless that only violent methods can help us to rehabilitate ourselves...
...around his nailheads and sit on a rafter reading Homer and Aeschylus at lunch hour. He has "quit loafing." But the morning comes when he is late for breakfast and they find him sitting up in bed, the floor strewn with loose papers, writing again. They guess he is hopeless...