Word: forlorn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hardly justified the crocodile tears of William Knowland. TIME'S resume of the Al Sarena investigation, however, constitutes, if not a nosedive, at least a pratfall. Those of us who were familiar with the mine before it was glamorized by the Al Sarena label know it as a forlorn hope. Your whitewash of the case might serve its purpose elsewhere in the nation, but in Oregon it is generally conceded that an obsolete mining law and political influence have been used to take a sizable bite out of our national forest...
From those who saw it as a moral question from the first, the back of the hand to you for your faint praise of China's stand in the forlorn hope of right v. expediency...
...Tomasz Arciszewski, leader of the Polish government-in-exile in London, addressed a telegram to Franklin D. Roosevelt at Yalta. Perhaps the most forlorn of the 43 documents, the telegram shows how the U.S. and Britain might at least have emerged from Yalta with honor...
...answers from more than 200. Of them, 79% assumed that President Eisenhower would not be a candidate. Asked to name their personal choices other than Ike, 50.5% endorsed Dick Nixon. After Nixon came Senator William Knowland, with 19.6% and Chief Justice Earl Warren with 16%. Goodie Knight stood a forlorn fourth with 6%. Forty-one percent of the committee members foresaw a primary fight next year between delegations pledged to Nixon and Knight. As between those delegations, 61.7% said they would favor Nixon's, only 22% said they would prefer Knight...
...Father Charles is a forlorn priest who has become the laughingstock of his parish because of his remarkable resemblance to Cinemactor Fernandel as a priest in The Little World of Don Camilla (TIME, Jan. 19, 1953). Gloomily surrounded by packed suitcases, he is about to grow a beard and go to live among the Eskimos when the godfather arrives...