Word: lost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, the veterans of the House rallied their forces, rolled up their most impressive weapons. Michigan's Republican Charles E. Potter, 32, who lost both legs fighting in Europe, walked on artificial limbs to the well of the House. Said Potter: "I hate to see the veterans of this country used as political pawns in this great Washington game of cheat." The veterans bombarded the bill with amendments, hoping to reduce it to such a jumble that nobody could vote...
...were killed in Britain by bombs and rockets during the entire war. Hamburg's great port is virtually paralyzed and many of Hamburg's sea captains have become trolley car conductors. Nearly 30,000 seamen drift from one odd job to another. Even the tough waterfront has lost its rowdy vitality. In the dark alleys, these nights, the stillness is broken now & then by the shuffling gait of a homeless seaman or the importuning of a hard-working streetwalker, dragging a drunken, crippled U-boat veteran who staggers along on his crutches...
...bandit bought out of slavery by Dr. Adoniram Judson, a Baptist missionary from Maiden, Mass, who had arrived in Burma in 1813. Ko Tha Byu learned to read the Scriptures, was baptized, and set out to convert his fellow tribesmen. Karens, who had a myth that one day their "lost white brother" would return over the great waters with a "lost book," made willing listeners. When bands of Karens began to arrive in Rangoon to be baptized, the Burmans threw them into prison. One convert, Ko Shwe Waing, was released and smuggled a Bible in the Karen language through...
...Rivera's murals heavily influenced the WPA muralists who spread their work across the walls of U.S. post offices in the 1930s. About the same time, his own became increasingly complicated. He started spelling things out-caricaturing his personal and political enemies, deifying his heroes -and his paintings lost their poetic savor. But if his art was no longer so lyrical, Rivera's mural in Mexico City's old National Palace still made powerful prose. So did the clamorous panels he painted in the Detroit Institute of Arts to celebrate the machine age. His next...
Georgetown's victory over Dartmouth, defending Eastern Intercollegiate League champs, speaks for itself. The Navy game next Saturday is the official League opener and the Middles, although they lost the loop's second best, pitcher when they lost Ronnie Burton, are still potent...