Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terrain until the entire country is secure. Unless we had a massive infusion of new troops, such a strategy would take many years and become in effect an enclave strategy, with all of its disadvantages, while the rooting-out process was going on. The military initiative would be largely lost...
They were pro basketball's old men, the team the experts wrote off as has-beens after they lost to the Philadelphia 76ers in the National Basketball Association play-offs last year and finished a distant second to the 76ers in the N.B.A.'s Eastern Division this season. Over the long haul, the Boston Celtics might be the most successful team in the history of pro sport, but now they were over the hill. Their coach and center, Bill Russell, was 34. So was Guard Sam Jones. Forward Bailey Howell was 31; Captain John Havlicek was a youngster...
...Barcelona's Society of the Friends of Gaudi to help restore the building to Gaudi's original design: "It is a continuing surprise and delight to me, so rich in detail that I find something new each time I visit it." The recent discovery of a long-lost cache of Gaudi drawings in a factory shaft may enable Harnden and his associates to enrich the crypt with still more Gaudi delights...
...take any brutal measures against the colony. But then a clerical emissary from England arrives to announce that King Charles I intends to revoke the charter of the Massachusetts Colony and place it under the direct rule of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Morton taunts Endecott with this promise of lost authority, and suddenly the Governor becomes as steely as his armor. Delivering a flaming polemic against the King, he sunders his own flagstaff and tromps the red-crossed flag of England underfoot. It is the most powerful moment of the evening and brings to vivid life D. H. Lawrence...
There were few retreats. Some airlines, among them Pan American, TWA and Eastern, lost money as they battled increased wages and costs. Copper companies were down some 30% as a group from the first three months of 1967 because of strikes-which afflicted few other industries last quarter...