Word: lossing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...machines have allowed exporters to conceal their coke inside products ranging from record jackets to water skis. Cocaine can even be dissolved in liquor or perfume (it is easily recovered after passing customs). Water containing dissolved cocaine can be soaked into cotton clothes and retrieved days later with a loss of only about 10%. Middle-size traders often hire "mules," innocent-looking travelers, to walk their goods through customs; they profess ignorance if caught. A former Los Angeles probation officer and his Colombian wife were arrested with five associates last month; 6 lbs. of coke were concealed in the soles...
...loss of Steve Martin--the attackman, not the comedian--will hurt the lacrosse team, but returning vets plus new recruits should give Harvard its best team in years...
...finals. 36. The Philadelphia Flyers and the California Golden Seals played to a 1-1 tie in Madison Square Garden in March, 1968, because the roof of the Philadelphia Spectrum had blown off. 37. No. He did, however, contribute a few shifts for the Bruins in a 1955 playoff loss to Montreal. 38. Larry Robinson of Montreal and Dave Schultz, then of Philadelphia. 39. Dwight Foster. 40. Johnny Bucyk, on January 5, 1974. 41. Gilles Gratton. 42. John Hynes of Harvard. 43. The St. Louis Blues. 44. Garry Howatt, New York Islanders, 1973-74 season, 204 minutes. 45. Forbes Kennedy...
...been at work well in advance of the company's Krupp-built Bagger, monstrous earth removers that are two football fields long, four stories high, and can chew up 200,000 tons of earth in a day. The Hambach pit (named after a nearby village) will mean the loss of four communities with a total population of about 10,000. A number of villagers are vocal about the loss of their homes and what they consider inadequate compensation offers by Rheinbraun. Says Gerhard Heyden, a schoolteacher in the doomed town of Lichsteinstrass: "It's particularly hard...
...Harvard must face the music. Not a professional, still the Harvard athlete is in the limelight and people and the media will be demanding. So this athlete learned when the hockey team for which he tended goal lost four straight games. I thought it had peaked after a Beanpot loss to B.U. when The Crimson compared my glove hand to that of Marv Throneberry. But the meaning of the term "humbled" was never clearer than on that Saturday afternoon in Ithaca when a lone voice in Cornell's Lynah Rink intoned, "Bertagna, you're not a sieve...