Word: forlorn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cristiani's top officers appear to have convinced him that the F.M.L.N. must be decimated before it will return to the negotiating table. That is probably a forlorn hope, even though the rebels' losses in the offensive may exceed 1,000. If nothing else, the rebels proved they can disrupt life in El Salvador whenever they choose. They have also shown that the government is all too willing to use its heavy firepower when the war is being fought in poor neighborhoods but is reluctant to strafe and bomb a rich enclave like Escalon, where support for the governing ARENA...
...million to just 150,000. Those who remain huddle by night in airless underground shelters, listening to the sounds of destruction. Those who venture out by day find their streets overrun by starving dogs and giant rats and occupied by implacable soldiers. "They are murdering the city," says one forlorn resident. The fear is that the remaining people may be murdered as well...
Larew on LaRouche: If you've walked through the Square this week, you've probably noticed the forlorn activist by the T-station who has launched a solitary hunger strike to free Lyndon LaRouche. LaRouche, a former communist turned right-wing fanatic, is now serving a 15 year sentence for conspiracy, mail fraud and tax evasion. The convictions stem from a credit card scam in which LaRouche's operatives stole more than $2 million...
...this light, the decision to withhold lottery numbers fits into the general image of forlorn students crying objections to administrators from the wilderness...
...bedroom is now a study. With great cunning, my parents waited until my junior year before they erased all vestiges of my memory. They packed away my weight set, tore down the basketball net and worst of all, gave my NFL bedsheets to charity. My pennants lay in a forlorn pile at the bottom of my closet. In their place, my father's diplomas hange with mocking pride. His desk rests serenely where I used to shoot Nerf hoops. My bed, remade and reeducated, is now his couch. It's not that I wanted a mausoleum, but did they have...