Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wasn't easy. Although the defending national champion "Where's B.U.?" Terriers had been conveniently knocked out in the semis, upset-minded Dartmouth proved no pushover. The Big Green, which had gone 0-3 in the playoffs before this year, stunned first-seeded B.U. on Friday night (5-3), matching number two UNH chance-for-chance and hit-for-hit until the final buzzer...
...allow today's politicians to call a second constitutional convention [Feb. 19] would be like doing a remake of Gone With the Wind with Woody Allen as Rhett and Phyllis Diller as Scarlett. Not only is the casting inappropriate, but it would ruin a masterpiece...
...another loser. Anyone could see that [Shahpour] Bakhtiar [whom the Shah named Prime Minister before he left Iran] was a loser. For a little more than a month, Bakhtiar played the game of losing, with us patting him on the back and providing him with support. Bakhtiar predictably is gone down the pipe also." Bill felt that the U.S. had thereby lost-though not irretrievably-a chance to influence the Khomeini-installed government...
Needless to say, proposed increases in federal funding have not gone unchallenged. Familiar arguments about the cultural elitism of public television have been dredged up. "When working-class Americans are being pitched off Amtrak passenger trains to save a few bucks," notes former White House speechwriter Pat Buchanan, "it approaches the obscene to demand that taxpayers triple their subsidy to this playpen of the penthouse proletariat." Never one for subtlety, James J. Kilpatrick says he "sees no reason on God's green earth for taking the taxpayer's money in order to nuture those happy hotdogs of the intellectual left...
...Fanny Bick, he lets the opportunity pass. Instead he delivers a tired, paternal lecture, retreating into the mythical wisdom he supposedly possesses as a biographer intimate with the lives of the great. Even when his wife discovers his affair with Fanny and the lame excuse of "protecting" her is gone, he still hasn't the nerve to give up his comfortable prison...