Word: godforsaken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perfect housekeeper, cheerful companion, admiring reader, pretty Jane Carlyle tenderly nursed her husband's rockbound dyspepsia with tasty food, his dyspeptic humors with tasty compliments, sparkled wittily for his friends, never complained of poverty or the isolation of dismal winters on the godforsaken farm at Craigenputtock, kept her mouth shut when he was talking, swallowed her humiliation when he spent his evenings with Lady Ashburton, took a back seat for 40 years, and in the end convinced Victorian contemporaries that the Carlyle marriage was a gruff idyl. Her reward was the affectionate petname "Goody," the company of famous...
...when he met two compatriots in like case, and the three of them agreed to pool their resources, go prospecting for gold. Curtin, like Dobbs, was a greenhorn at the business, but luckily Howard was an oldtime prospector. He led them up through the mountains to a godforsaken spot, set them to work panning for gold dust. After many a long, backbreaking month they each had about $15,000 worth of gold. Just as they were getting ready to leave, another U. S. prospector found their hidden camp, promised them all a fortune if they would stay on with...
...political-for party preponderance. Former Bolivian Presidents confessed repeatedly, their country had no title or rights to Chaco. Paraguay does want peace, but will as little consent sharing Chaco with turbulent neighbor, as any householder would consent sharing his plate and belongings with housebreaker. Chaco is not such a Godforsaken country as people think: many of the boys back on leave are enthusiastic and want to settle there after this war, which can have only one ending-either recognition of obvious Paraguayan rights or Paraguay forcing Bolivia slowly to "git" even if it took ten years to do it-Kundt...