Word: forlorned
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What Harvard team posted a 10-1 record last year, won the New England Championships against teams from Yale and MIT, and enters the season with nearly the same lineup? The Harvard volleyball team, which despite impressive credentials remains a forlorn entry among a score of major intercollegiate sports...
...been pushed over to one corner. Grade school desks with writing arms and stenciled numbers on the backs are scattered around the room and an old Mikado poster from the fall is tacked up on one wall. Despite the clutter and trash, Shannon seems empty and a little forlorn...
...consensus on evolution. Perhaps, says Ryan, the uproar over the Edelin verdict will help eventually to bring a reasonable accommodation among those who back abortion and those who oppose it. In the light of the strong passions that the issue arouses today, however, that would seem to be a forlorn hope...
...husband died not too long after being gassed in World War I, and Lady spent the rest of her days being a rich, eccentric widow. Late in her life she won the New England regional "forlorn cry" award, popular-novel division: "Oh, I am a vain and foolish woman. Yes, foolish. I have wanted the esteem of the world, and why? Tell me, for what...
...legislators, irritated by Pug's unrelenting attacks on them, were not buying. When a three-judge federal panel in Columbia upheld the lower court, Ravenel's lone hope was a forlorn one-an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, which has ruled in favor of a similar residency requirement in New Hampshire. Last week the hastily reconvened Democratic state convention named Dorn, a conservative who has served 26 years in the House of Representatives, to replace Ravenel. The untidy shuffling of candidates, with the appearance of a quarterback sneak against Ravenel, has given the G.O.P. its first chance...