Word: forlorned
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...urban Africans to keep their hands out of the till, and had been cheered to the echo wherever he went. His most delicate mission, however, was to soothe the 4,000 grumbling ex-gendarmes who once served him admirably in the old secessionist days, and who had waited with forlorn fidelity in Angola during Tshombe's exile from the Congo. Now the troops were billeted uncomfortably in railroad boxcars at the mining town of Kolwezi, and demonstrated their ugly mood by refusing to let trains enter or leave the station...
...stand for seven hours. She was not happy when her first cousin, Mrs. Richard S. Parker, turned up to testify for Dr. Murphy and pointedly ignored her in order to sit next to Dr. Murphy's new wife. In fact, all during the trial Happy seemed a rather forlorn figure. Governor Rockefeller apparently considered it inappropriate to accompany her, and only occasionally did Happy have a relative or close friend with her to lend moral support...
...been promised the vice-presidential nomination by Adlai Stevenson. Instead, Adlai declared that nomination wide open, told the delegates in Chicago to make up their own minds. Caught unprepared, Humphrey got lost in the sudden struggle between Estes Kefauver and John F. Kennedy. But he kept up his own forlorn fight, buttonholing whoever would listen, shaking hands until the last of the delegates streamed by him to take their seats and nominate Kefauver. Thereupon Hubert Humphrey burst into tears...
...must end, personally ransacked a block of houses in which several murderous cops were thought to be hiding. Riding in an open Jeep, he inspected nearby communities, stopping long enough to organize temporary local governments in each. "I intend to maintain law and order," said Mulamba. It was a forlorn intention in the present Congo...
...proceedings started off with a Bang - a lieutenant named Bang passed out the voting slips. In La Maison Blanche, a forlorn, peeling stucco villa overlooking Cap St. Jacques on the South China Sea, 58 officers of South Viet Nam's Military Revolutionary Council sat on hard, schoolroom-style chairs and scribbled their votes on the ballots. A colonel chalked up the results on a blackboard: Khanh, 50; Defense Minister General Tran Thien Khiem, 5; General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, 1; General Do Cao Tri, 1: blank ballot...