Word: friendless
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...death penalty falls for the most part on obscure, impoverished, friendless or defective individuals and rarely on the well-to-do and educated. The church believes that each individual is sacred as a child of God, and that to legalize the killing of an offender is to deny the basic Christian doctrines of forgiveness of sin and the power of redemption, and that mercy is a Christian duty...
...Hasty Heart" didn't make much of a splash when it opened on Broadway a few seasons ago. John Patrick's play about a dour, friendless Scot in a British army hospital in Burma was perhaps a trifle unconventional for New York audiences. The fact that the Scot is slowly dying, although he doesn't know it, gave the play an undertone of tragedy. "The Hasty Heart" fared better in summer stock, where it has become a standby...
Judge Olti nodded, at last directed the prisoner to sit down. As Vogeler turned to find his chair, the spectators saw for the first time the face of the American who had been confined, friendless and isolated, under nameless dread and threat, for three months in a Red Hungarian jail...
...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...