Word: forlornly
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...Forlorn. Murder at the Wall was inevitable during the Christmas interlude, for the arrangement by which Berlin's Communists had permitted 700,000 West Berliners into East Berlin during the holidays could only have its fatal temptations for Easterners who wished to reciprocate. In a sense, it was curious that more East Berliners did not try to break out. To hear the West Berliners tell it last week, the contrast they found with their living standards in West Berlin was appalling. Nowhere did the disparity between East and West come clearer than at the crossing points themselves. West Berliners...
...autopsy was performed at the Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md., and its findings differed in significant respects from earlier reports by doctors at Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital. The Parkland doctors' only interest had been in trying to save the President's life, totally forlorn though that hope was, and they took little time for closer examination of his wounds...
They left the sprays of red roses and asters that Jackie and Nellie Connally had been given at the airport lying forlorn on the floor...
Harder Fight. Meanwhile, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller was still pursuing what most G.O.P. politicians considered his forlorn hope for his party's presidential nomination. Invading New Hampshire, where he and Barry will meet head-on in next March's presidential primary (most observers consider Goldwater ahead), Rocky spoke to a Republican rally in Durham. He came within an inch of formally announcing his candidacy-and of admitting that he is in deep trouble. "It is no secret to any of you," he said, "that I am seriously considering running for the presidency...
...perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn...