Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last Hero. The predominance of realists in the new governments has only heightened the tension in Czechoslovakia over the fate of Josef Smrkovský, who, with Dubček's decline, remains the last hero toCzechoslovakia's disillusioned workers, students and intellectuals. An unrepentant liberal, Smrkovský lost his post as president of the National Assembly when that body was abolished to make way for the new legislature. In the new system, he temporarily holds the equivalent post of president of the federal parliament. At the behest of the Russians, the realists have started a campaign to take...
...early '40s. Nothing reflected that better than its way with the mysterious, deeply spiritual last quartets of Beethoven. The ensemble's recordings of that period captured their particularly expansive style, in which they seemed to move as much above the music as with it. Although they lost some of their ease and sparkle in later years, they never sank below a remarkably high level of interpretive excellence. Even on an off night, they played with exactitude of tempo and emotional involvement that few other ensembles could match-the reflection of so many years of living together and apart...
...high school star in football and basketball and was persuaded to at tend Ohio State with the offer of being allowed to play both sports. In the Rose Bowl, his ball handling was superb. Play after play, his fakes fooled NBC television cameramen so badly that they lost the action entirely. A 69-yd. Ohio State drive ended with Fullback Jim Otis scoring from the one; a 50-yd. drive to the Trojan 10 enabled Kicker Jim Roman to make good on a 26-yd. field goal with three seconds left and tie the score at halftime...
...York Stock Exchange, the Dow-Jones industrial average, which reached a 1968 peak of 985.21 on Dec. 3, fell to 943.75 at year's end. Despite a rebound when trading resumed after the New Year holiday, the average lost ground for the week, closing...
Columbia has lost several of its stars of last year's team which crushed Harvard 21-6. But the New Yorkers always manage to come up with replacements and are favored again this year to repeat as Ivy champions...