Word: forlorned
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Some recalled that at the end of May last year they had bared their heads when that same figure emerged from the Ministry of War in Paris, summoned post-haste from the Near East to take command of the French armies in a forlorn hope...
Developed by General Electric, the new turbine is the best news of many years to forlorn U.S. powermen, who have long felt marked for ultimate liquidation by the. Federal Government. Steam plants, largely privately owned, produce some 72% of U.S. electricity, convert an average of only 30% of coal's energy into current. Hydroelectric plants convert into current 75 to 90% of the energy of falling water.* Therefore the possibilities of increasing power output and lowering costs are far greater for steam generation than for further hydroelectric development...
...acquired a bad name. By 1939 the imperialism ("Manifest Destiny") of 1898 had been long regarded as a pain in the bowels and conscience of the U.S. The timid internationalism of World War I was a spinster memory, pressed like a dead flower between the forlorn pages of the League of Nations...
Example: when Colonel Oldfield's men were short of lumber for their barracks, he sent them by night to strip the hulk of an old ship, forlorn on the shore of Gatun Lake...
...many loyal but tired Frenchmen last week the springs and parks and ornamental villas of Vichy seemed more forlorn than ever. For out of Vichy, after weeks of rumor, came the most striking signs yet of French "collaboration" with Adolf Hitler, and suspicion sped through France that if Marshal Petain was still doggedly trying to pick up the French pieces, his aged fingers were now only fumbling...