Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision has not been referred to Congress since 1824, when Andrew Jackson lost the presidency (he later won it twice) despite having collected 42.2% of the popular vote, against 31.9% for John Quincy Adams and 13% each for House Speaker Henry Clay and Georgia's William H. Crawford. In the Electoral College, Jackson's three opponents denied him a majority. In the House, Clay threw his support to Adams, who thus became President. Though Clay hotly denied Jacksonian charges that he had made a deal, he was soon appointed Secretary of State by Adams. Tempers ran so high...
Defending the Bastions. By the time Wilson took his turn to speak, delegates were thirsting for uplift. As the Labor vote shrank in one by-election after another, men and women with lifetimes of service lost their posts as local officials on town councils and school boards. Moreover, to many fervent socialists, Wilson's economic policies have added up to a betrayal of their lifelong principles. And yet, as head of the party, he was still the only man to whom they could turn for inspiration...
...That high, it turned out, was based on pretty flimsy ground and was soon followed by a rapid collapse. Wild speculation by unregulated brokerage houses, which often used customers' portfolios as collateral, was chiefly responsible for driving up prices. When the bubble burst, thousands of investors lost their life savings. Of some 1,500 Japanese securities firms, fewer than 400 survived...
...Teetering on madness, he spouts the words as if emerging from a lifelong nightmare. Zeffirelli, however, seems to have had better luck in casting youth than age. Pat Heywood's Nurse is a cockney caricature. And Milo O'Shea's Friar Laurence is a characterization lost somewhere in the middle distance, not deeply enough involved with the lovers nor sufficiently removed to act as a chorus of comment...
That crusade originated in Florence, where Zeffirelli was born 44 years ago. The illegitimate son of a textile salesman and a seamstress, he grew up, he recalls, "amongst dresses and dressmakers." At nine, he was taken to see Wagner's Walküre-and got lost onstage after the performance. In a sense, he has been swallowed up in scenery ever since his one-man student production at the University of Florence led Luchino Visconti to sign him for a bit part in Crime and Punishment. Zeffirelli then talked his way into assistant directorships with the maestros of postwar...