Word: forlorned
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...leafless little parks of Vichy seemed even more forlorn than before. The name Pétain might keep for many a touch of magic-a legendary gleam that shone out of the mud of Verdun. But the man Pétain, watery-eyed and old, and his regime, for months largely fictional, seemed indisputably through...
Captain Bogdan, ranting, crazed with heat, died within a few days. His body was offered to the sea. Sharks collected and began to patrol the forlorn expedition. Certain that they had no chance, men & women prayed and gave way to despair. In their naïveté, the four children sang hymns, prayed and kept up hope, until the adults caught their courage...
...bombed places have only the forlorn air of neglected vacancy. It is as if in each city some building contractor had sent out his wrecking crews and then had run out of money or had forgotten what it was he had intended to build in the places his crews had wrecked. By far the greater part of each of the cities remains, of course, undamaged. In the wet and grimy streets life goes on, busy and cheerless...
Daily rations were one biscuit, one-quarter of a cup of water, two teaspoonfuls of condensed milk. The youngest, and one of the most stoical, of the forlorn voyagers was two-year-old Janet Johnson...
When the ship reached Rio de Janeiro, the refugees found that their visas were good for only 90 days-90 days they had spent at Dakar-and the Brazilian authorities would not let them ashore. A few days later the boat sailed again, on a forlorn chance that perhaps Argentina would admit them...