Word: lost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rebels, was going slowly. Within the week President Eisenhower would arrive to hear what, if any, new solution De Gaulle had to settle the five-year war. "A climate of expectancy and uncertainty mixed with apprehension reigns," reported Le Monde. "The moment is coming when the game is either lost...
Much of the bloodshed in the province can really be traced to the political quarrels of two old rivals for the Ilocos congressional seat in Manila. One is the Liberal Party's Floro Crisologo, who served three terms, then lost to his enemy, Nacionalista Congressman Faustino Tobia. "Sure, I give my boys guns," admits Tobia (whose uncle is wanted for murder). "They need them to protect themselves, don't they?" Crisologo is equally frank: "I don't deny it. We kill Tobia's men. But we kill only one to every four or five...
...Elroy Face, relief pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates (TIME, June 22). Last week Face beat the Philadelphia Phillies 7-6, to make his record a startling 17-0, and to extend his winning streak over two seasons to 22 games. Face has not lost since May 30, 1958, has often been helped by the happy knack of the Pirates of winning extra-inning games (18 out of 20 this year). Baseball's leaders, with four weeks to play...
...Mannix diagnosed it, Blue Cross is suffering from hardening of the arteries, has lost the pioneering spirit that sparked its phenomenal growth in the 1930s. It now has 80-odd plans operating across the U.S., works through an organizational maze of associations, commissions and committees. Some Blue Cross groups have restricted benefits while raising their rates; individually they are not up to dealing with employers and labor unions, which want nationwide coverage...
...Ministry of Culture's Sovetskaya Kultura grumbled that Bernstein was "violating all traditions" and "looked somehow conceited." Yet it was only a squeak, lost among the cheers. In five concerts last week, Bernstein took Moscow by storm. Composer Aram Khachaturian rushed to pump Bernstein's hand after performances, bubbled over with rave reviews in the government's official organ, Izvestia, and added special praise for Bernstein's Symphony No. 2 ("Age of Anxiety"). Said another top Russian composer, Dmitry Kabalevsky, after hearing Bernstein's rendition of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony: "Never have I heard...