Word: forlornly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McGovern continued insistently if not very optimistically to challenge Nixon to come forth from the political sanctuary of the White House and debate the issues. It was probably a forlorn hope. As McGovern tried to flush Nixon out, the President remained intent on his own formula for reelection, which includes working at intricate Viet Nam scenarios. One of them, Nixon hopes, might yet make good the G.O.P. promise that by November, the issue of Viet Nam will have receded into relative insignificance...
...Collins Avenue in their rented air-conditioned limousines could pass up a sandaled, T-shirted hitchhiker only at their peril; they never knew whether he might be a key delegate. The violent tradition of Chicago was dead; the encampment of protesters in Flamingo Park was quiet, even a bit forlorn...
...building power. It is, for one thing, an achievement of almost perfect sympathy. One begins caring about Alex-his guilt, his daydreams, his bewildered adolescent innocence. Descendants of Huckleberry Finn, Alex and his brother do cannonball dives into the polluted muck of an urban river, cracking exuberant and forlorn scatological jokes about what they are swimming...
...wait until you are forlorn in late July, faced only with the prospect of another trip to Lamont or a tedious night at the pinball machine. Come to 14 Plympton St. tonight or tomorrow night at 7 p.m. to find out about the summer Crimson. The food is free. As is the beer...
...rare document that somehow reaches the reader's imagination in more enduring ways than more dramatically horrifying renderings ever could. Horror, of course, is organic to the world Kantor drew. He shows naked bodies being disgorged from a room after Cyclone-B gas has just been tested; the forlorn, rumpled figure of a woman in the snow who committed suicide by touching the high-tension barbed wire around Auschwitz; SS guards abusing prisoners. But he also has dozens of other details-women carrying soup in heavy barrels, prisoners being mustered for work, men searching for lice, sick call, scenes...