Word: forlorn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THERE SAT the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University, looking as helpless as Kojak without his Tootsie Pop. On his left, the Dean of Students of Harvard College, as forlorn as Charlie without his Angels. And above both of them towered the Dean of Harvard College, an elongated J.R. who'd just spent $2.5 million digging a dry well...
...Brown, 30-28 3-2 .600 28-14 .667 MICHELLE HEALY Associate Sports Editor Harvard, 35-6 Yale, 13-10 Cornell, 28-3 Brown, 17-13 4-1 .800 27-15 .643 NELL SCOVELL Associate Sports Editor 4-1 .800 24-18 .600 LORREN ELKINS guest selector, forlorn capitalist Harvard, 31-10 Yale, 28-14 Cornell, 24-7 Brown...
Bausch suggests that the Monsignor's conversion may have to be a journey away from the priesthood to the fatherhood of the forlorn Bexley family. It is a measure of this fine first novel's catholicity - with a lower-case c- that the choice seems almost irrelevant. In or out of the collar, this Shepherd seems at last to have found his calling...
...Washington, a group of about 40 Democratic Congressmen, most of them liberals, formed the Committee to Continue the Open Convention and named as its chairman Edward Bennett Williams, one of the nation's most respected criminal lawyers and a man not known for backing forlorn causes. With a $200,000 operating fund, the group set up an office in Washington and plans to have one in New York by convention time. Said Williams: "I think that if Carter gets the nomination from an open convention, he has a far better chance than if he emerges from a convention where...
Something of the same forlorn shabbiness seemed to cling to F. Donald Nixon, Richard's younger brother, whose dubious business deals included a shadowy $205,000 loan from Howard Hughes. Richard, Big Brother indeed, actually had Don's telephone tapped for more than a year in order to keep track of him. Which brother ultimately embarrassed the other more remains a tossup...