Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...however, Lady Bountiful began to seem more like Lady Macbeth to Jeffrey. She wanted more say in artistic matters and insisted on changing the company's name to her own. Jeffrey refused, and so they parted. Broke and unable to offer his danc ers any future, he lost all but two of his 26-member troupe, 14 of them to the newly formed Harkness Ballet...
...various guises, as teacher, judge, healer. Now, in a new or really an old but recaptured guise, Christ has begun to make an unexpected entrance onto the stage of modern secular life. Enter Christ the harlequin: the symbol of festivity and fantasy in an age which has almost lost both...
...idea and promote and develop it myself, there won't be any question about who is going to be the architect." His first venture was a new medical building. It gained him the kudos of the medical profession but was a promotional failure. Recalls Portman wryly: "I lost about $7,500, which I didn't have." His next venture was vastly more successful. Encouraged by the success of a furniture exhibition he organized in 1957, he made plans to build the $15 million Merchandise Mart-the first structure of what was to become Peachtree Center...
...four of the British crews had lost in the opening races, in the greatest national tragedy since Victoria's death. Foreign possession of the Challenge Cup was unavoidable, but there was now a solid chance that, for the first time, the colonies might win it. In addition to the young Harvards, the "old Harvards"--the Union Boat Club of Boston--had won its first race...
...Crimson had won in a watery walk. Stroking easily, the boat captured the admiration of the British press. London Field Magazine noted "the lightening quickness of their hands, a method which would appear to be a lost art among modern English oarsmen...