Word: forlorn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Mahatma Gandhi dropped his anti-British disobedience campaign and turned to such a forlorn cause as abolishing Untouchability, more and more of India's Hindus have turned away from him. In 1930 when he was all India's idol and a prisoner in the Poona jail, he whiled away the time translating from Sanskrit into English hymns from the Upanishads and other Sanskrit scriptures and from the Bhakti poets. Last week Macmillan Co. published his Songs From Prison. Samples...
There is no more fascinating work for the man seriously interested, nor any work less enchanting for the associates of the charmed one. Sometimes lonely and forlorn, as when his story Peters out at the last moment, sometimes jubilant as when praise is lavished on him by the moguls for work on an assignment, the candidate often drags himself to bed weary with his troubles but nevertheless ready again in the morning to sense any item of importance in the day's events...
...winter, broke it in February. One man was lost but doughty Professor Schmidt transferred the remaining 101 persons in his charge to an ice floe, whence they were removed in a spectacular series of airplane rescues (TIME, April 23 et ante). In the ensuing storm of enthusiasm the forlorn Wrangel colonists were all but forgotten...
From ever forgetting the forlorn figure of the unemployed; from failure to see that our social fabric is as shabby as his coat, and that our heads must bow in equal shame with...
...this time the Confederacy was a forlorn hope. Morgan's raids were no longer either so daring or so successful. A raid into eastern Tennessee was his last. One rainy morning the house was surrounded by blue troopers; no sentinel had given the alarm. While rifles popped, Morgan dashed out through the garden, dropped dead. At his funeral in Richmond the military escort had to abandon the procession, double-time off toward the threatened defenses...