Word: loses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could do so with considerable satisfaction, since he has managed to keep confounding the critics who are waiting for him to lose his political balance. Friends and foes alike had wondered if he would be overshadowed by the Russians at Helsinki, but he turned out to be very much the star of the show (see THE WORLD). Both there and on the rest of his ten-day trip, the President was especially courted by the East Europeans, who hope he will keep applying pressure on the Russians to allow them more independence...
...problem of missing Faith is so serious that William Colby, director of the CIA, has initiated Operation Find-It, a clandestine project designed to infiltrate and assassinate all individuals responsible for losing Faith. Colby told a Senate committee last week that so far the CIA has assassinated over 20,000 people who either "actively or inactively participated in the plot to lose Faith." But so far Faith itself remains at large...
That debut was typical of Jordan's career, played out in the melancholy minor league towns of Davenport, Iowa; Waycross, Ga.; and Palatka, Fla. The games, Jordan notes, seemed to have a will of their own, and the will was to lose. After a long series of catastrophic starts, Jordan finally admitted that his confidence, his control and his aspirations had come to nothing. "My career was no aesthetically well-made movie," he confesses, "rising action, climax, denouement. It was a box strewn with unnumbered slides...
Collier said funds for the hotel project came from the undergraduate housing department. He did not know exactly how much they would lose but it would probably be a couple of thousand, he said...
...OLDEST PROFESION in the wold has finally began so painted, padded and well-packaged by Hollywood that it's been sold into respectability. Prostitution is still illegal, sure, but like other professions that used to be morally reprehensible, it begins to lose its shame when it becomes big business. Men who were "in trade" used to be socially blighted. Acting, as long as actors were poor, was considered a dishonorable occupation for centuries--until mass audiences and later the silver screen turned actors into billionaires. When Xaviera Hollander announced that she had struck it rich, she was asking the world...