Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...team of Harvard archaeologists unearthed last summer the lost citadel of Carmania, the ancient city in southeastern Iran which Alexander the Great conquered bloodlessly...
...freshman have been erratic on the way to their 1-2 record. They swamped Columbia in their opener with Terry Wynne at quarterback, but made costly errors against B.C. and Dartmouth in their last two games. Five times they lost the ball inside their opponent's 20 yard line after long drives...
...once thought I knew a little something about Rhode Island. I grew up in the shadows of Brown Stadium, after all. But then Brown beat Colgate which had beaten Princeton and then the next week, the Bruins lost to Princeton. Not bad enough? Well, Frank. Licht surprised everyone by defeating incumbent governor John Chafee. So Cornell will win, 13-7, because Licht went to Brown...
...tall lanky editor of the Paris Review has also offered up his body for three boxing rounds against Archie Moore, suffered humiliation across the tennis net from Pancho Gonzales, floundered in the watery wake of Swimmer Don Schollander, lost at bridge to Oswald Jacoby, and banged percussion instruments with the New York Philharmonic. He is, in effect, the actor of the average man's Walter Mitty dreams-the real-life agent of vicarious thrills. And now, in The Bogey Man, Plimpton records the humorous agonies of his experience as a mock-professional golfer...
PERHAPS it started when you were ten years old and you lost a fight with the kid up the block for the first time. You ran home bleeding and crying to your mother and she patched your wounds and told you, "You can't fight with boys, dear. They're stronger than you are." And she was right. Boys not only had strength you could never match, they had all the paraphernalia of strength: sweat socks, Erector sets, laundry bags full of shoulder pads, aircraft carrier models, framed photos of The Varsity, dirty books, baseball cards and pup tents, while...