Word: forlorn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They left the sprays of red roses and asters that Jackie and Nellie Connally had been given at the airport lying forlorn on the floor...
Harder Fight. Meanwhile, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller was still pursuing what most G.O.P. politicians considered his forlorn hope for his party's presidential nomination. Invading New Hampshire, where he and Barry will meet head-on in next March's presidential primary (most observers consider Goldwater ahead), Rocky spoke to a Republican rally in Durham. He came within an inch of formally announcing his candidacy-and of admitting that he is in deep trouble. "It is no secret to any of you," he said, "that I am seriously considering running for the presidency...
...perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn...
...ranks were brewing a mutiny. When the musicians said "Ozawa's full of air and showmanship, but little that's real art," he demanded apologies. Instead, he got fired. Refusing to believe his bad luck, Ozawa went to the concert hall anyway and, alone and forlorn, awaited his orchestra. It never turned...
...into Cinerama dreams of Oriental glory. Unabashed by what his fine Italian hand had done to the recent Broadway flop, The Lady of the Camellias, he went into positive paroxysms of production. And when the curtain rose on each new scene of his masterpiece, the astonished audience forgot the forlorn presence of Soprano Leontyne Price and Tenor Carlo Bergonzi to shout "Stupendo! Bravo, Franco...