Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tall, well-dressed man walked into the police station in Middletown, Conn. "I lost two friends by assassination in the past five years," he said. "I want to do everything I can to encourage people to turn in their guns." Then William Manchester, 46, author of The Death of a President, handed over his own .45-cal. automatic pistol to the officer on duty...
...emphasized ... A little light in the hair . . . Mouth toned down . . . Transparent makeup." While Courrèges decked the Queen out in a modestly mod dress and jacket, Alexandre cropped her royal mane and Roger Vivier prescribed a pair of shoes that made up in sex appeal what they lost in good sense. Out of the imaginary exercise came a composite photo of a rather lovely Liz, but one that her subjects will probably never see, inside or outside Buckingham Palace...
...Lost Meaning. Employers were also sympathetic. A Wednesday holiday was tolerable-at least to the boss, who could count on two solid days of work before and after it. But Tuesdays and Thursdays were painful. Employees looked at him reproachfully if he did not throw in the extra Monday or Friday to make a full four-day holiday...
...originally proposed in 1868 as an appointed date on which to decorate the graves of the Union dead, has over the years varied by month and day according to states' whims. Armistice Day, first pegged to Nov. 11 as the date of the World War I armistice, lost its original meaning when it was converted to Veterans Day to commemorate the end of all U.S. wars. Even patriots of Italian descent admitted that the day, Oct. 12, on which Columbus "discovered America"-actually the British Bahamas-could be considered flexible. It derives from the old Julian calendar and would...
...some customers even though they placed no orders, charged others $39 for products that were marked only $3.90. Before long, the computer turned Rodman's once orderly operation into almost total chaos. Teams of IBM technicians spent six months fixing the malfunctioning brain, but by then Rodman had lost a number of accounts and was knee-deep in problems. "The computer," he says, "almost put us out of business." A Boston federal jury convicted the computer and awarded Rodman $53,200 in damages...