Word: gone
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Gone. As the rescue work went on, searchers began using German shepherds and bloodhounds to find bodies. Many of the dead were buffeted so hard against rocks and the walls of the canyon that they were stripped of their clothes. Some of the corpses were dismembered, most were bloated and unrecognizable. To make identifications, five dentists and eight FBI fingerprint specialists were called...
...artist or "a winner in a man's world," whether Louisa May Alcott was a novelist or a "tastemaker." The difficulties of such judgements should have made one thing very clear to them: that most "remarkable" women are remarkable because they defy these classifications, because they have gone beyond the expected realm of action...
...house, and Thomas Wilcox, chairman of Crocker National Bank (national ranking: 15th). Publicly, however, the directors join ranks behind Rockefeller. For his part, Rockefeller insists that he has no intention of stepping down until he reaches the mandatory retirement age of 65 in four more years. "We've gone through some difficult times," he concedes, "but I think we've dealt with our problems systematically and are correcting them on schedule...
...mano a mono struggle between Russia and America for the title of "the world's greatest athlete" would have been an apt climax for many past Olympics. But at Montreal, it seemed almost atavistic. Gone, at least for now, are the days when the superpowers smugly split up the men's track and field medals between them, leaving only scrap iron for the satellites of sport. The victors' list last week read like a Rand McNally index, with 13 nations sharing the 23 gold medals (a division of spoils that might have been even wider...
...world was mad." Scaramouche, in fact, is the type of the homme engagé, the modern intellectual activist. All his acts are the free acts of a man who dances his existence upon the abyss of nothingness. Today the notion that only the crazy are sane in a world gone mad would hardly rattle an espresso cup. It was not so in Sabatini's time. By a singular stroke of intuition, he created an existentialist hero almost a decade before Jean-Paul Sartre raised the banner of existentialism...