Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monday, the sixth day of the demonstration, it was obvious that the demonstrators had failed to arouse a new "consciousness" in their fellow students. Their cause was lost unless they could pull something out of their collective hat at the last minute. The administration sensed the student support for its position, and was willing to use force to regain law and order. The administration had hesitated for so long because given the highly unorthodox situation of the occupied buildings, the demonstrators had the advantage, on a small scale, that the administration had on the larger one. The status...
...idea for the Carmen Curler started rolling when a strapping 34-year-old Dane named Arne Bybjerg Pedersen answered a newspaper ad in 1962: a hairdresser was looking for a partner to help develop a new-style curler. Bybjerg, a former plantation manager in Malaysia, invested $5,500 and lost it all. But he kept his faith and teamed up with a Copenhagen engineer who offered his know-how and a basement workshop for experiments. The pair ran up $200,000 in debts before the Carmen Curler was perfected. A first order from Britain for 500 sets...
...Heights apartment, picking up a ringing telephone as if it were a pistol loaded for Russian Roulette. "On impulse, thereby sharpening his instinct as a gambler, he took spot plunges: once in a while he would pick up his own phone. On this morning in September, 1967, he lost his bet." The caller is a militant antiwar organizer and old Harvard classmate, who extracts from Mailer a promise to participate in the Washington protests and thus give up a valuable weekend. The lost weekend really starts off when Norman, very much in his bourbon cups at a fund-raising evening...
Today, at 65, Wylie has lost none of his rage but all of his sense of ribaldry and humor-which puts today's youth one up on him. This tirade is directed again at humanity in general. Specifically, Wylie's complaint is that man does not live as the animal he was in tended to be; instead he has buried his natural instinct under phony shibboleths such as religion, capitalism, Communism, belief in progress and blind faith in science...
Harvard stands in the middle of the top competitors. In the first match of the season the Crimson beat Navy, 4-3, and downed Cornell, 5-2, just two weeks ago. But the golfers have also lost heart-breakers to Penn in an upset and just yesterday to Yale under poor course conditions. They have not yet faced Princeton in match play...