Word: hauntingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most intensely of those moments when hope has finally vanished from men's lives-when the revolution has failed or the plans fallen through, when escape has been frustrated, pardon refused, when even suicide has been prevented and nothing remains but the certainty of execution. The questions that haunt his novels like a strain of sombre music are these: What happens to men when they know they will die with no chance to struggle against their fate? How do they meet their death? What remains in them when the last aspiration of their personal careers, their last hope...
...twelve extra courts, the terrific pressure on the University courts from the mass of graduates and undergraduates excluded a large number of athletes for whom the extra effort needed to reserve courts was not worth while. But now there are ninety-six more playing periods available, the Varsity will haunt Linden Street no longer, and the lawyers will have six courts in their own back yard...
Meanwhile, in the Reich, would-be refugees continued to haunt U. S. consulates, searching U. S. telephone books for the addresses of Americans who might be their relatives. A typical letter received last week in the U. S.: "Dear Sir, "My name is . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ., and as my mother is a born G . . . . . . . and has relations in America, I think to be on the right address. I am 18 years of age, was born in Vienna and am of a very good family. By profession I am bodicemacer and am thoroughly versed in all commercial branches. I am perfect in German, English...
...made, and a tentative schedule drawn up. But this year, too, as in the past, the danger that early-season hustling and bustling will peter out, that teams will play one game and then fold up, and that the whole thing will prove an utter failure, still remains to haunt Coach Samborski...
Repeal of Prohibition in the U. S., legalizing of horse racing in California and the sudden suppression of public gambling in Mexico have reduced the border town of Tijuana (literally "Aunty Jane") from an egregious haunt for U. S. tourists to a bedraggled ghost city of boarded-up saloons and flapping signs. Some excitement occurred two months ago when 400 unemployed barricaded themselves in the big Agua Caliente (literally "Hot Water") hotel and defied the garrison of 28 soldiers to oust them. Since then Aunty Jane has been tomb-quiet...