Word: forlorned
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...says. "As a sportswriter in the late 1960s, I covered the San Diego Rockets and later the Cincinnati Royals, and I still miss those associations. I used to see 100 games a year. On the road, sharing cabs and airport check-in lines, we were a small and sometimes forlorn band: the Rockets and the Royals lost a lot, and coming into New York City to play the then triumphant Knicks in front of 19,500 people could be a rather poignant experience...
Although the bus eventually did arrive, the forlorn foursome had already left the ITT and never made the trip...
...Wednesday-night balloting approached, only one substantive question remained: What kind of message would Hart deliver in his prime-time convention swan song? As it turned out, Hart paid obeisance to Mondale without explicitly abandoning his forlorn quest for the nomination. He praised his opponent's "unsurpassed grit, perseverance and determination." He told the loudly applauding delegates that whatever their nomination choice, he would "devote every waking hour and every ounce of energy to the defeat of Ronald Reagan." And he added a nice line: "This is one Hart you will not leave in San Francisco...
...waiting rooms of the poor are forlorn, but in fact almost all waiting rooms are spiritless and blank-eyed places where it always feels like 3 in the morning...
Rand's Christmas present to his son is stranger and more wondrous than any of his own inventions: a little animal called a Mogwai, with a kitten's purr and the forlorn eyes of an orphan puppy. The creature, whom Billy's dad dubs Gizmo, arrives with enough warnings to fill a Tylenol label three times over: Keep him away from water; keep him out of the light; and never never feed him after midnight. A few drops of water inadvertently fall on Gizmo, and pop! pop! pop! pop! pop!, five living fur balls fly from...