Word: friendless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grew sick, and numb, and chilly, and dizzy, and so fell prostrate at once. Then, for weeks, all was void, and black, and silent, and Nothing became the universe. Total annihilation could be no more. From these . . . attacks I awoke, however . . . Just as the day dawns to the friendless and houseless beggar who roams the streets throughout the long desolate winter night-just so tardily-just so wearily-just so cheerily came back the light of the Soul...
Mutiny is an ugly word, and in the Chamber, Deputies were sobered. Faure made a last, stern appeal: stop bickering, and make up your mind on what France should do in North Africa. Lest France be left alone and friendless in the world, he pleaded, "we must have a clear policy-not powerless sulking...
...speak our language, they do not know our laws, they are the raw material with which we have to build up the state . . . There is no denying the service which Tammany has rendered to the Republic. There is no such organization for taking hold of the untrained, friendless man and converting him into a citizen. Who else would do it if we did not? Think of the hundreds of thousands of foreigners dumped into our city. They are too old to go to school. There is not a mugwump in the city who would shake hands with him. They...
...have yearly been advanced against this plan do not counter the advantages it would have. Such assignments would neither throw freshmen into an uncongenial atmosphere nor destroy a House's uniqueness. Applicants, still choosing their own roommates, could not be thrust into a situation where they would be absolutely friendless. Individual spirit in a House is not created by students alone. Masters and tutors would still vary widely, each staff trying to express its own views and attitudes in the House program, each approaching the students from a different point of view...
...failed us. Neither our education nor our experience nor our principles had prepared us for this encounter. Ours is, indeed, a rich and wonderful country-glamorous beyond belief. A bum can no longer suffer mere misfortune; he must be "rolled by a beautiful call girl." And he is not friendless. Far from it; he has only to appear in Wall Street to have his credit and identity restored. I returned to my office filled with awe. What dreams we Americans can dream ! Who has bums like our bums? MAX J. K. CLARK New York City...