Word: forlornness
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Joseph Stalin last week congratulated Britain's home fleet on sinking the 26,000-ton German battleship Scharnhorst (see above). Next day, Moscow's Red Star published a cartoon showing a forlorn Scharnhorst sailor disappearing into the sea. In the foreground frenetic Propaganda Minister Goebbels shouts into a microphone: "Germans, we won a great victory. The German underseas fleet has increased in one stroke by 26,000 tons...
...Germans last week were evacuating Berlin. Through the rubble-littered streets where gangs of workers dug in dusty ruins, past forlorn groups of people standing before bombed-out homes, drove radio propaganda cars, urging women and children to leave. The newspapers, on sale again in reduced format, gave the same bleak advice to all nonessential residents. Outside the city, in suburban recreation centers, thousands camped in tents or beneath the open sky, waiting for transport...
Confucius' discovery that music is an infallible indication of the state of a country's moral and political health -"when the heart's chord of sorrow is touched, the sounds produced are sombre and forlorn"-has carried its ever-new message across the centuries to the turbulent days of the Horst Wessel song...
...forlorn tomorrow...
...supply from port to port. Submarines made nuisance bombardments of road and rail along the coast, and naval task forces shelled the retreating troops. Then began the double duty of the Tunisian campaign, until, last week, destroyers skimmed along by Cap Bon, permitting only the slightest leakage of the forlorn refugees from Axis Africa...