Word: tantalus
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...next year's crop of Seniors are shaking in their boots for fear that they will be wearing khaki rather than the cap and gown one year from now. Men called away by the army in the middle of their Senior year will find themselves in the position of Tantalus, so near a degree and yet so far away. In anticipation of the inevitable some definite mechanism must be adopted to handle these cases...
...best of my recollection, abetted by contemporary research, it was Sisyphus who was the Greeks' most futile lapidist, not Tantalus...
Perhaps weary Henry Agard Wallace "toiling like Tantalus in Hades" is merely logrolling; or maybe the pork suspended above him and the slush about him disappear as he is about to grasp them...
...Presidential boomlets, that of patient Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace has probably laid the biggest egg. Weary Mr. Wallace, toiling like Tantalus in Hades, has pushed the farm problem up the hill countless times, only to have it roll back and crush him anew each & every time. Trapped in a six-year mesh of cumbrous grabbag legislation, alternately burned by droughts* and swamped by bounteous Nature's overproduction, still he comes up with a dogged smile, pushes his greying cowlick out of his eyes, and tackles the irresistible forces with new enthusiasm. But still U. S. farmers rate...
...tantalizing outfit this year, with its bright spots brighter than bright, and the duller moments inexcusably dull. It has clicked, and it has failed to click, but the impression has always been left that it is almost ready to go. The club has been dangling the apple before Tantalus too long, and a break is about...