Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...typical of the characters in the movie. When he wants to become a "good boy," his mother throws him out into the street; when he stops Jaibo from beating a friend over the head, the friend is already dead. When he gets a job, Jaibo causes him to lose it. An old blind beggar sums up the mood of the show when he says, as Jaibo falls dead from police bullets, "One less . . . they all will end that way. They should be killed before they are born...
...From these bases, planes would bomb Costa Rica's defenseless capital, San José. Women in the capital would be stirred up by fifth columnists to parade hysterically to the presidential residence and demand that Figueres resign, to spare his country. His enemies hoped that he would then lose his nerve and turn over his government to a rebel junta...
...Groove. Giordano's 58-year-old opera, loosely based on a true episode, tells how the young Poet Chénier becomes successively enamored of the French Revolution and a French beauty, only to lose both his love and his own head to the guillotine. Also swept up in the swirling action is a servant who turns revolution ary and finds his new power as bitter as his old servitude. The Italian libretto is full of mysterious letters, whispered warnings and preposterous melodramatics. Nevertheless, the opera does convey tremendous theatrical excitement and a sharp sense of the great revolutionary...
Francis P. Locke '33, chairman of the Dayton, Ohio Club's School Committee, warned that if the new program is implemented, "Harvard is going to lose good boys at the first hurdle. The Harvard idea requires a good deal of cultivation. We persuade students to apply and then later persuade them to come...
With the advent of the twentieth century, Beck Hall's chandeliers soon began to lose their brilliance. A portion of the ground floor was even given over to "a school for teaching young women the art of riding on a bicycle." Eventually, construction of Claverly in 1893 and other later dormitories forced this original Gold Coast mansion to surrender its social prominence to Mt. Auburn Street. It was torn down...