Word: lost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...black cathedral spires of the city of Cologne that the U.S. First Army had smashed into smithereens 14 years before. Placards said: THE CITY OF PORZ GREETS EISENHOWER -TROISDORF WELCOMES YOU-GERMANY TRUSTS EISENHOWER. Mixed among them were placards pleading for help in regaining Germany's lost Oder-Neisse territories, now held by Communist Poland: MILLIONS ARE FREE, MILLIONS ARE NOT FREE. The President waved to everybody, said again and again, "Thank you, thank...
...veto message: the bill included 67 new projects not listed in his budget. These projects would add only $50 million to outlays in the current budget, but "their ultimate cost wall be more than $800 million. This illustrates how easily effective control of federal spending can be lost...
...whole subtler, gentler, freer and more naturalistic than they are. This naturally bothers archaeologists; it seems to go against reason. So does the presence of two distinct physical types side by side throughout Olmec art: one lean and aquiline, the other Negroid. Meyer's two ambassadors from the lost Olmec world display both types. They are not gods, apparently, but men-alert and still, and perhaps forever strange...
...title, Actor Douglas gnashes his teeth - as well as the arch dialogue -and looks less like the male Candida that Shaw intended than like a Sportin' Life in tights. Actor Lancaster, as the local parson, glooms away Shaw's most romantic scenes as if he were lost on a Brontë moor. In a climactic scene of comic derring-do, ex-Acrobat Lancaster makes heroic hash of a colonial court house and all the Redcoats in it. Otherwise he is as stiff and starchy as the clerical collar he eventually gives...
...with red crosses of torn sheets and red flannel bandages. As the battle raged through the streets outside, Paul's team performed 80 major surgical operations. The wounded came in a never-ending stream to tell in that flat soldier's monotone of the losing fight and lost friends. "Pretty nasty down at the bridge. The panzers got there earlier than we reckoned." "Frank, that's my mate, copped it. In the face-half of it blown right out." The British held the hospital for only 36 hours. On D-plus-one the Germans swamped the hospital...