Word: losses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other action, Cornell decked Bucknell's tiny squad, 24-0, in Ithaca, and th Penn Quakers handed Columbia its first loss, 31-19, at Franklin Field Saturday night...
...insisting on speedy and certain punishment-that is psychologically sound and socially just to both offender and victim. For truly dangerous and vile criminals, let the punishment be prison, never capital punishment. Let's assign other offenders to labor and service to the community. This kind of loss of liberty and leisure is punishment; yet the offender would be making some kind of social retribution. Please, let's not build any more jails...
...number of reported "near misses" of aircraft in flight has been increasing sharply, to 384 last year-and the safety experts believe that only a small portion of such perilous passings are reported. The overwhelming majority do not involve commercial airliners. But as the San Diego crash illustrates, the loss of life is large when the near miss involving a big passenger jet turns into an actual collision...
...dragging on for four years, is in danger largely because of the dollar. Finally, global inflation is being fired anew. Uncertain what the value of a product will be even a few weeks from now, both exporters and importers raise prices a little more to ensure against a possible loss from a currency change...
...images linger in the mind: Yankee Chris Chambliss hitting the home run in 1976 that beat the Royals in the final inning of the final game, and, in 1977, Royals' Shortstop Fred Patek openly and unashamedly weeping while he sat alone on the bench after another final-game loss to the Yankees. Wait until next year, the Royals' fans kept muttering, in the classic fashion of losers, and now next year begins this week when Kansas City once again gets its chance to win the American League pennant and, at long last, bask in the glory...