Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lost Queen, Lofts...
When Richard Nixon lost the California governorship race in 1962, an acerbic English journalist wrote a political obituary. "Nixon's record suggests a man of no principle whatever," chided the pseudonymous columnist "Flavus" in London's New Statesman. Flavus, alias John Freeman, then editor of the socialist weekly, added for good measure in 1964 that Nixon and some other leading Republican hopefuls were "discredited and outmoded purveyors of the irrational...
Until Laurel and Crete, few lives had been lost, a fact that O'Connell considers miraculous. During January 1968 alone there were 576 derailments. At Dunreith, Ind., 250 residents had to be evacuated for 48 hours after two freight trains sideswiped, releasing flammable and poisonous liquids that resulted in a ten-hour fire and a huge explosion. The fire destroyed a cannery-Dunreith's major industry-and seven houses; cyanide pollution of the water persisted for several months. The wreck, which cost the railroad $ 1,000,000, was caused by a defective rail that would have cost...
...turn until fighter-bombers and helicopter gunships, taking off little more than a mile away, saturated the Communist positions with rockets and napalm. A few Viet Cong staggered out of the inferno, bleeding and holding their weapons over their heads in surrender, but more than 200 of their comrades lost their lives in the ruins of the hamlets...
...Knesset plaza, the procession moved quickly to the graveside, where the coffin was hurriedly lowered into a stone-lined grave. Acting Premier Allon stood beside Eshkol's widow, Miriam, while Dayan stood at the edge of the crowd and Mrs. Meir, teary-eyed and pale, was lost amid the throng. An army detail placed slabs of marble on top of the coffin and then poured baskets of Jerusalem earth into the grave...