Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meyer flew in widening circles, climbing to 18,000 ft. Royal Air Force radar picked up the Hercules near Cherbourg, on the Normandy coast. Six chase planes went up in pursuit but lost radar contact almost instantly. Nearly an hour after his takeoff, Meyer called in to ask that he be put in touch with his wife by radiotelephone. The Air Force complied. "I am heading home," he told her. Then he radioed: "I'm having trouble with my automatic pilot. Leave me alone for five minutes. I'm having trouble." That was the last word anyone heard...
Time for Reevaluation. Under such circumstances, the matadors have lost their pride, and their skills have grown dull. A few, like Linares before his banishment, may still be offered $7,000 for one fight. Most of Spain's 193 active matadors, however, have grumblingly accepted 25% fee cuts in return for comfortable bulls and a guaranteed minimum number of appearances. At the same time, they have reduced the ritual you loved so much to a modicum of spasmodic passes. The capes that once came alive in flashing veronicas across the sunlight are seldom used today...
Also, the old rituals which enhanced student, life and bound them to each other, and to their college college, such as football rallies, homecomings, etc., all have lost most of their meaning and have not been replaced by anything but the estimate the sit-ins and rebellions provide. The spirit of intimate comradeship that used to prevail in a fraternity house is now found by all too many students in their sit-ins, where they feel closely bound together, important as at no other time, doing things together which they deep down know they do also for the emotional satisfactions...
...speculation arose after the Crimson golfers lost possession of the Easterns Crown this year, finishing a disappointing fourth in the competition. The Athletic Department had agreed to pay the team's expenses to the NCAA As last year, in part because they won the Easterns title...
...pass to, among others, Phil Zuckerman and Bruce Regan, who ranked sixth and eighth in Ivy scoring. But even with lousy teammates, his passing is so good that he'd have to get a substantial number of assists. He's now eighth no Harvard's all-time scoring lost...