Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though politics is the art of compromise, the bill owes much to the stubbornness of one Congresswoman from St. Louis. Democratic Representative Leonor Sullivan, an eight-term veteran who lost battle after battle to strengthen the measure in committee hearings, carried her lonely but vigorous fight to the floor of the House, finally won with an overwhelming 382-to-4 vote...
...generally more incisive than Romney's cloudy oratory, but occasionally it seemed that they had a common guru. "The real crisis of America today," Nixon declared at one point, "is a crisis of the spirit. What America needs most today is what it once had, but has lost: the lift of a driving dream." Richard Nixon's personal dream is driving him from a $200,000-a-year New York law practice into what he referred to last week as "the snows of New Hampshire and Wisconsin, the roses of Portland, and what have you." How long...
...longer the canal stays shut, the harder it will be to open. Silt is piling up in the canal so fast in the absence of dredging operations since June that five feet of navigable depth have already been lost. "If the canal stays closed another year," said an American engineer in Beirut last week, "it will be in such bad shape that they might as well turn it into an irrigation ditch and plant potatoes around it." Even the Egyptians seemed to be looking for alternatives: off to London last week went an official delegation to discuss construction...
Beneath the warm blue waters of the Mediterranean, a sea whose mood is usually thought of as serene, 121 men died in one of the most bizarre coincidences in naval annals. Hundreds of miles but only some 24 hours apart, an Israeli and a French submarine were lost in separate, unconnected and equally mysterious disasters. Sinking swiftly to great depths without leaving as much as a trace to guide searchers, Israel's Dakar went down somewhere between Cyprus and Haifa and France's Minerve only about 25 miles from her home berth at Toulon. Their entire crews...
...important, M.G.I.C. was not yet insisting-as it now does-on writing all policies with an option permitting it to pay only 20% of a claim in cash while leaving the mortgage lender to take over foreclosed property. Allowed initially to operate only in Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota, M.G.I.C. lost $64,000 in its first year. In 1959, Karl shrewdly tied his fortunes to those of S & Ls, which had just won authority to make loans up to 90% of the cost of a house but were often hesitant to take such a risk. To make sure that...