Word: lost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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France's General Charles de Gaulle declared that the Atlantic pact had lost most of its efficacy. Intoned the sepulchral voice of Paris' Le Monde: "Whatever the future of the giants . . . Europe is bound to be abandoned to herself . . . She no longer guards the 'fire' of the century . . . War or peace will be decided by others...
...American League pennant fights getting more hair-raising day by day. The Brooklyn Dodgers, whose revitalized pitchers were suddenly throwing more strikes, fewer home-run balls, rolled into St. Louis for their final whack at the front-running Cardinals. They led with their ace, Pitcher Don Newcombe, and lost a heartbreaker, 1-0. Then, instead of curling up, they walloped the Cardinals in the next two, the last time to the roaring tune of 19-6, and rolled out of St. Louis only half a game out of first place. Early this week, the Dodgers stumbled in a game with...
...Oklahoma's most cherished citizens this fall is big, blond Bud Wilkinson, 34, who learned his football as a guard and quarterback at Minnesota. After his first year as head coach at the University of Oklahoma two years ago (7 games won, 2 lost, 1 tied), he got offers from Yale and the Naval Academy. This season, to keep him from straying, Oklahoma boosted his salary to $15,000 (more than the president of the university was getting). Coach Wilkinson decided to stay awhile...
...Notre Dame, unbeaten since 1945 (when the Irish lost to Army and Great Lakes), began another season by outnumbering and completely outclassing Indiana. Coach Frank Leahy used 45 players to try to keep the score down, but it rose...
...listeners were aware of. In the last act, with Mimi a-dying, Segurola (known mainly to a later generation as Deanna Durbin's teacher) suddenly turned to Caruso and whispered hoarsely that he could not manage his final aria, the "Coat Song." Grated the basso: "I've lost my voice...