Word: forlornly
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...chronic state of being asleep up to the knees and threaten to leave me in the lurch. ... I am growing very tottery and had considerable difficulty in dressing this a. m. Even so, I shirk my job and ignominiously retire to blankets and a cheap novel at our forlorn and smelly billet...
...offered superb opportunities for spectroscopic examination. Such novae throw off tremendously hot shells of gas, then subside irregularly and gradually to something like their former faintness. On the other hand some astronomers believe that supernovae, which fade rapidly, become "neutron stars"-small, dead, dense lumps of matter, forlorn wraiths of the cosmos...
...what may seem on the surface to be a forlorn hope, the Varsity quintet will make a strong bid to tame the Columbia Lions on the New York courts tonight. A return game will be played here Saturday...
...consent to reconvene, the Democratic House leadership had to pay the Republicans a small price: a GOPhilippic by tubby, pudding-jowled Minority house Leader Bertrand Hollis ("Bert") Snell, which was also broadcast. Swelling with professional resentment at the President's extraordinary program, the New Yorker, who shepherds the forlorn 104 Republicans of the House, cried: "Why this departure from our former dignified practice? Does anyone maintain there is any special emergency whereby we should change the rules and precedents that have stood since the beginning of this Government? Is there going to be anything in that message that will...
Unaffected for the time being will be the Household Cavalry, without whose gleaming breastplates and nodding plumes the King &; Queen on state occasions would appear to their devoted subjects strange and forlorn indeed. The very first British cavalry to be mechanized is the brigade now in Egypt. Wrathful natives who today hurl paving stones from a safe distance at these horsed heroes will soon find them riding in British buses equipped with windows of shatterproof glass...