Word: hopelessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...43rd Street, and following the practice of years, spread out the theater program, a dozen freshly pointed pencils and a legal-size pad of lined paper. Then, writing by hand, one paragraph at a time-each snatched immediately by the impatient copy desk-he delivered his judgment ("inherently hopeless'') on Goodbye Charlie, the comedy he had just seen. Within an hour, the Times's presses were reproducing an appraisal that would be read respectfully, not only by those directly involved in the show, but by everyone connected with the American theater...
...perhaps Mr. Nehru does realize all too well. Perhaps he regards the situation as hopeless because his cherished neutrality has put him in a lonely and unenviable position...
...nearly everybody but Robert Anderson, a balanced 1960 budget seemed a hopeless undertaking. Over the prosperous Eisenhower years, the Administration had achieved a budget surplus only twice, in fiscal 1956 and 1957 (see chart), despite all the balanced-budget promises of the 1952 campaign. With the 1959 budget a gaudy $12.5 billion in the red, and the economy still convalescing from the recession, sober heads in the Administration argued for aiming toward a practical goal, e.g., holding the 1960 deficit down to a few billion...
...minute attack on towering (6 ft. 4 in.) U.S. Ambassador James Wadsworth. According to Tsarapkin, Wadsworth's insistence that Russia must agree to study U.S. data on the difficulties of long-range detection of underground nuclear tests was a clear attempt "to throw the talks into a hopeless impasse." Then, with that off his chest, Tsarapkin blandly announced that Russia was now ready to "propose" that a joint working party of Soviet, British and U.S. scientists be directed to study the U.S. underground data...
...student opinion from your columns and from casual discussions, I realize that quite a few students feel that too much fuss is being made about a mere ritual of words--words that will satisfy "politicians" but that have no possible educational consequences, while other students feel that it is hopeless for any one institution, or even group of institutions, to take a stand on principle against the inevitable. (There are still other students who feel that they should be free to accept loan money under the Act without interference from professors whose scruples stand in the way; this...