Word: forlorned
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...they faced the possibility that Nixon in 1972 will have the brightened aura of a world statesman and peacemaker. Potential Democratic candidates for the presidency could only applaud Nixon's coup. The quixotic candidacy of Republican Congressman Pete McCloskey, centered so completely upon the war, looked even more forlorn...
...Hocker, one of the alltime great American nudists, is still out there in the nude. But he is not smiling and carefree, the way you would imagine a nudist to be. At 60, Mel sits alone in his little office, a mass of naked wrinkles, glum, dispirited, forlorn. Forlorn because just outside Mel's screen door, his own twelve-acre nudist club-the Oakdale Guest Ranch-is going silently to seed in the dry heat of the San Bernardino Mountains. In fact, the club's membership in two years has plummeted from 300 to 60 couples...
...Hocker sits alone in his little office, a mass of naked wrinkles, glum, dispirited, forlorn, brooding about the passing of the golden age of nudism and wearily watching Sparky Blaine trying to create a last varoom...
...your letter you conveyed a false conception of the man and of the problem that he presents. Your attitude to him as a person means to me that you are being false to yourselves. Finally, I believe that your whole maneuver is the pursuit of a forlorn hope. For these three reasons, I did not sign.Conant Professor of Education and Mathematics (On Leave...
...forlorn, ill-fed Dickens who lodged alone during the blacking-factory days was the original of all the young innocents set wandering in his books-the Oliver Twists and David Copperfields and Pips. Through them, his evocations of childhood and the child's point of view are still unmatched for sympathy and immediacy, as well as for their perceptive mixture of terror and delight...