Word: forlorned
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...anyone within a bullet's range last week, Hispaniola was more like hell on earth than the warm, jasmine-scented paradise it might be. Last week marked the third time in 50 years that U.S. troops have been forced to intervene in the affairs of the forlorn, hate-filled little Caribbean island...
...sleazy, wide-open border town of Tijuana attracts hundreds of pleasure-bent college students each spring. One band of California youngsters, 300 strong, had more to show for their Mexican trip this year than hangovers or tourist trinkets. They spent Easter vacations in Tijuana's forlorn slum district, building an X-ray clinic, a food and drug warehouse, a free-milk bar for youngsters and a 16-crib hospital for infants...
Despite such success, Moreau can still go unnoticed in a crowd: her forlorn, equivocal beauty is not to be seen at a glance. At 37, she looks younger than she did at 30, but at 30 she was older than winter. Her lips point down in an inverted smile, her teeth end in saws like a child's, the color of her hair is indistinctly reddish-blondish-brown. Her eyes can be hopeful and occasionally serene, but they kindle smaller fires in the imagination than do the dark circles under them. There is desperation in her mouth, especially when...
...visitor of such rank, Peking might have been expected to roll out brass bands, banners, and brigades of costumed marchers. But for the passenger aboard the Ilyushin 18 that touched down at Peking Airport last week-Russian Premier Aleksei Kosygin-the only decorations were four forlorn red lanterns, and they were leftovers from Lunar New Year celebrations. Mourned a waiting Russian diplomat: "We told them that Kosygin would stop over here. They did not answer us." The Red Chinese inhospitality was understandable. After all, Kosygin was en route to Hanoi to court Peking's next-door satellite, North Viet...
What was built before 1948 as a model campus for Hebrew University is now a forlorn and uninhabited neutral zone within sight of Israeli Jerusalem...