Word: lost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...understand people who take the view that everything is lost when something like this touches their lives. I can't help feeling sorry for them . . . We have felt all along that our babies will see some day. Even if they don't, we plan to give them as normal a life as possible...
...There were about 90 women guerrillas in the prison. One of them had lost both legs because of gangrene following battle wounds. 'I was an only daughter,' she said. 'My parents kept me like a jewel. I was not brought up for this...
After their long political catnap, the Conservatives were at last thoroughly awake, worked harder than Labor to get out the vote. By week's end, the Conservatives had captured a prize beyond their fondest hopes: they had chalked up a net gain of 829 seats, while Labor had lost 633. The Tory tide swallowed Wandsworth, Ernie Bevin's home borough, and Herbert Morrison's own stamping grounds of Lewisham. The Conservatives registered big gains in London's working-class Hammersmith and Holborn districts. Moaned one Labor official: "It turns our stomach...
Amid Japan's general satisfaction, bushy-haired Prince Chichibu, 46-year-old brother of Emperor Hirohito, spoke a few words of caution. "I think this is the beginning of recovery," he said, "but there are still so many black-market millionaires in Japan that honest people have lost the will to work." Chichibu doubts that Japan's slender resources can support her huge and growing population. An avid fan of Li'l Abner, the Prince wistfully recalled his hero's fabulous friend which, as a kind of one-animal Marshall Plan, had promised to provide humanity...
...York's State Liquor Authority took away Levine's license for ten days. Levine cut prices again and the board again suspended him. After a third offense last March he lost his license...