Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consider stepping up their efforts to provide faster, more efficient travel service for us groundlings. There must be millions of us! I have taken my last flight! Having won an all-expense vacation in Mexico City recently, I came very close to abandoning husband, children and country because I lost my courage to fly home...
...wishes of the majority of the delegation. And neither party gained clear control over the 26 delegations that would have been necessary for the House to choose a winner. Democrats will command-but only in name-25 delegations, and the G.O.P. 20; five are evenly divided, hence would have lost their vote. Thus it might have been left to the Senate to select either Spiro Agnew or Edmund Muskie as Acting President...
Ferré's New Progressive Party was founded only last year, but its success was widespread. It won 26 mayoral elections; the P.D.P. had not lost one of the island's 76 municipalities since...
...lifts your lighter limbs like your legs, and it keeps changing directions because you are rotating in a movement you are still unaware of. The terrific wind separates you completely from your hands and feet. You experience the shoulders and thighs nearest you; but the outer limbs are lost to the environment...
Such demagogic nonsense, like the unusually serious charges brought against the welfare protesters, seems designed to obscure the facts of the welfare situation by transferring the blame from the Volpe administration to a group of welfare recipients and students. Lost in the shuffle is the fact that the welfare mothers are suffering more than anyone from the massive irregularities in welfare administration. In the specific case of the State House sit-in, the protesting mothers were informed by state officials that their demands for winter clothing for their children would have to wait until the state could reorganize the Medicaid...