Word: forlornly
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...unable to find a way out of the war or an escape from Axis domination, the Finns knew what to fear next. A Helsinki dispatch expressed the forlorn hope that the U.S. move "would not mean a final breach in relations...
...year ago today," he said, "the dimming lights of Bataan's forlorn hope fluttered and died. . . ... Our flag lies crumpled, its proud pinions spat upon in the gutter; the wrecks of what were once our men and women groan and sweat in prison toil; our faithful Filipino wards, 16,000,000 souls, gasp in slavery...
seems to have made an impression on six young Yardlings who formed the society on March 6, 1808 "for their mutual improvement in instrumental music." But the gigantic number of six was not to be the steady diet of the society which, in the forlorn year of 1832, dropped to a single member, a faithful and unsung flutist, who managed to graduate from the University, practice, and keep enough of the Society's records intact to preserve its title of being the oldest orchestra in the United States...
...name connected with the disreputable world of the theater, so he had Agent Shakespeare's name tacked to the plays. To get a bit of his own back, he satirized obese Will Shakespeare in certain plays, making him Bottom, Falstaff, William the Clown, and once even "a forlorn maid...
...academically forlorn University of Georgia system was restored last week to accredited standing. The Southern Association of Colleges & Secondary Schools generously made the accrediting retroactive to September 1942-the date when Georgia was dropped from respectable academic society after gallus-snapping Governor Eugene Talmadge had 1) packed the Georgia Board of Regents with political stooges; 2) made himself a member of the board; 3) fired Dean Walter D. Cocking (of the university's College of Education), President Marvin S. Pittman (of Georgia State Teachers College) and others because they were "furriners" (Pittman is Mississippi-born, Cocking Iowa-born...