Word: forlorn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What Perry always had was sizzling speed, the kind that gave him five no-hitters as a high school ace back home in Williamston, N.C. In 1958, the Giants shelled out $60,000 just to get him on the roster, but for a while it seemed a forlorn investment. His fastball was wild, and when he tried to develop a slider (or fast curve) it was too slow. It took eight years and several elevator rides to the minors before Perry learned to improve his control, to keep the ball low and to give himself another effective pitch. This spring...
...typical victim reveals the disorder on the very first day of his life. This baby stares at the world with a fixed, forlorn expression; he is devoid of reflexes; he cannot coordinate sucking and swallowing. Later he may seem to cry-but without tears. He will never revel in the joys of candy; he cannot taste the difference between sweet and sour. When he burns himself, he may not even feel the pain. He is a victim of dysautonomia-an inherited malfunction of the nervous system...
...Senator," said the forlorn constituent calling on Montana's Mike Mans field at the majority leader's Washington office, "I've never been East before, never spoken to a Congressman, and can't afford this trip. So you can appreciate that I've got a serious complaint...
...Bankers Association conference, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler will conspicuously fly a U.S. air line (TWA), will probably stay only one day and, he says, "I may carry my lunch." Reason for this frugality: once again the U.S.'s hopes for ending its gold outflow have proved to be forlorn...
...escape is initially from invading Nazis. A diffident, dutiful French shopkeeper hustles his pregnant wife and daughter into the first-class carriage of a refugee train, himself crawls into an overcrowded freight car, and settles down contentedly to escape his dull, daily round. Contentment is compounded when a forlorn Jewish girl beds down with him. When his family gets lost in the wartime shuffle, the lovers happily play house in a refugee reception center until the missing wife and child are found. Then the lovers part. Many months later, fleeing the Gestapo, the girl timidly hunts up the shopkeeper...