Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question confronting Clifford and every other top policymaker from the President on down is whether to commit scores of thousands of additional troops to Viet Nam to regain the momentum lost when the Communists launched their Tet offensive in January. U.S. commanders are pleading for 100,000 to 200,000 more troops beyond the 525,000 already authorized. Seven or eight separate plans are under study at the Pentagon, all calling for sizable reinforcements and all entailing substantial political risks for the President...
...before the columned Potomac River entrance to the Pentagon: "I have heard this place here referred to as the 'puzzle palace.' Bob McNamara may be the only man who ever found the solution to the puzzle, and he is taking it with him." His words were lost; the public-address system had broken down...
Despite these gifts, he failed to invest his orchestra with enough expressiveness or subtlety to rival Doc Severinson's band. Carmen's rousing prelude came out as a consistent, if uninspiring, series of oompah-oompahs, and in the orchestral finale to the Gypsy Song the melody somehow got lost beneath the percussive power of the tambourine...
...Barnard and Winfield each won two and lost one in the sabre, while Bill Theodore and Paul Viita won a match apiece in the epee. Captain Harry Jergesen's two epee losses knocked him out of contention...
...first. For Munk, however, a Harvard record time of 1:57.3 in the 200-fly, was not good enough. He was edged out in the last part of the race by Yale's Paul Katz who broke a national freshman record with a 1:57.1. Still the Yardlings lost to the Elis...