Word: lacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year's varsity, which finished with a 5-8 record, was hampered by a lack of size. The team played only two home games, and several potential players were prevented from participating by both the time and cost of a heavy away schedule. "Traveling had to be done in private cars, and members had to pay for their own meals," Parks said. Considering the heavy financial pressure, the morale of this year's team was extremely high, Parks thought...
Faced with a lack of cash, hoarding what it has for welfare payments and schools, Michigan had missed a state payroll for the second week in a row. Altogether last week 26,000 employees, including stenographers, state troopers, doctors and "Soapy" Williams himself ($866), went without paychecks. In Lansing the State Employees Credit Union doled out interest-free loans. In Detroit the New York Bar & Grill reassured lunchtime customers from nearby state buildings: CHARGE YOUR MEALS UNTIL THE LEGISLATURE PROVIDES PAYDAYS...
Said the Frankfurter Allgemeine: "A great number of our schoolteachers seem to lack courage to discuss our ugly past with their students." Asked the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung: "Can we afford to raise a generation of young people who know nothing about Hitler except that he had a funny little mustache...
...Lest anyone think that ABC might lack talent after it gives Voice of Firestone the boot, the network wasted no time in demonstrating its taste, beat the competition in signing a prize performer who will not be available until the Army releases him in the spring of 1960. For an estimated $1,000,000, Pfc. Elvis Presley will gyrate and whine through at least one "special" a year for at least three years...
...hoped that our varying points of view would shine as brilliant examples of American freedom (of speech) but we discovered that our freedom (of disagreement) appeared to the Russians as anarchic lack of discipline. The fact that we did not always make fools of ourselves, and that we asked the Russians a number of embarrassing questions does not appear in the Ogonek article, due to the fact that it does not support the Soviet line that Americans are invariably helpless before the Soviet concept of truth...