Word: losses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...today evokes considerable nostalgia. Eisenhower presided over what many now regard as America's belle epoque. In considerable part, the harmony was illusory, but it is scarcely less cherished for that. Millions of Americans who mourned Ike's death last week grieved partly for themselves as well, for their loss of the more ordered, seemingly tranquil period that Eisenhower embodied...
...Doud Dwight ("Icky"), 3, died of scarlet fever. "This was the greatest disappointment and disaster in my life," Eisenhower wrote in 1967, "the one I have never been able to forget completely. Today when I think of it, even now as I write of it, the keenness of our loss comes back to me as fresh and as terrible as it was in that long dark day soon after Christmas, 1920." At Abilene, the bodies of father and son will lie inches apart...
...find their own nation indirectly supporting similar action in Biafra. The uproar has touched off a parliamentary debate, and last week led the Times of London to complain that Britain's Nigerian policy is a failure. Between that and Anguilla, suggested the Times, "there is a serious loss of touch in the conduct of British foreign policy...
...policies: 84% were unhappy over the rising cost of living. A strike by 38,500 workers against Ford Motor Co. was settled last week, but the 24-day work stoppage cost Britain $60 million in exports. Wilson himself has called the union walkout irresponsible. He is furious because the loss will have to be recouped by tightening the budget or by further limiting imports...
McCann signed his contract on the day before the meet, and this made him ineligible to compete. He also received a $500 bonus check. Unknowingly, he also accepted the questionable words of the pro agent, who assured that 'this thing is done all the time, and no one loss eligibility in sports other tan the one for which he signed...