Word: friendless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Excluded from the discussions and benefits of the Mexico City Conference (see INTERNATIONAL), Argentine was not friendless. On virtually every ship from England came eager British salesmen with seductive catalogues. The British Chamber of Commerce in Buenos Aires submitted to Vice President Juan Domingo Perón a plan for renewing British-Argentine trade relations after the war. On the list were machinery, boilers, busses, locomotives, nearly everything Argentina needs...
...China war. I had seen these refugees start their march five months before on the dusty roads of Hunan, where the sun leeched sweat from every pore, where human bodies and the fields about them were parched moistureless. Now, 600 miles away, these refugees were still trudging-the friendless, the halt and the sick-overtaken by the merciless blast of the Kweichow winter...
Patrick has built his play around a fundamentally intriguing situation. A friendless and unfriendly Scot, wounded badly and near death, is placed in a ward with four congenial and humor-loving soldiers. The other men are under orders to break down the reserve of the Scot and make him "belong" before his death, and the efforts of the four soldiers and their nurse to accomplish this task over the mountainous barrier of the Scotchman's intrespective soul make a penetratingly effective plot...
That announcement in this column last week about the coming marriage of Gene Speer caused a bit of embarrassment to the gentleman. We can look for a sharp dropping off of Gene's marks. It seems that his "friendless," Cora, the marker, also reads the News...
...often the insane are neglected, friendless, locked out of the way and forgotten. The people who care for them are often callous and incompetent and make sick minds worse...