Word: friendless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mean that like many successful politicians, Harry Truman was capable of contradictions within himself, and of trying to run in two directions at once. It also suggested that the Fair Deal was proposing a guarded and perhaps temporary truce. Business would remain wary. But in what often seemed a friendless world, a pat on the head was better than a savagely aimed kick, on any terms...
...literature of the time, giving a brief but wholly adequate comments on the many poems, novels, and plays which were concerned with the case. From beginning to end the Arts were entirely on the side of the defense, in general taking the view that two innocent and friendless men were being railroaded to the electric chair because their radical views conflicted with the conservative temper of the community. A notable exception to this rule was Harvard's President Abbott Lawrence Lowell. As the dominant member of the three-man committee which Governor Fuller appointed to investigate the affair, his behavior...
...Indonesian archipelago looked to Matty as if it would soon gain its Independence from the Dutch. What the budding republic needed, he decided, was a man like Matty Fox to brace up its economy. The Indonesians, who thought themselves friendless, were enthusiastic...
...carelessly around him, convey the same ominous mood. . . . They stand there, waiting, and their purpose is clear. You want desperately to call for help, but you know it's no use. The house is empty, the yards and streets are deserted, and the entire city around you is friendless and cold...
...feel very lonely." Kuniyoshi, twice-married, is president of the 850-member Artists' Equity, and a thoroughly sociable member of the Greenwich Village-Woodstock, N.Y. artists' set. His loneliness may go back to the day in 1906 when he arrived in the U.S. from Japan, a friendless boy of 13, to seek his fortune...