Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arty checks help bankers lure customers from each other-at the customers' expense; banks generally charge a penny a check extra. Some picture checks may invite forgery, since a signature could get lost amid the busy patterns. That consideration has been overpowered, however, by the new checks' appeal to women, who are doing an increasing share of family banking, and to many people who hunger for any touch of individuality in the everyday things that they...
...wife's emotional makeup is often the decisive element in aggravating the outcome of a lengthy separation. Women who lost one parent while they were children or whose parents wrangled constantly often lack "a chance to build up a belief in a benign environment," says Navy Psychiatrist Chester Pearlman. They develop severe doubts about whether people who leave them will ever return and never acquire the crucial "capacity to be alone." Dr. Richard Isay, a psychiatrist at the Yale University School of Medicine who has studied wives of submarine sailors, says that extreme dependency is common in wives...
Other men have lost their lives in the Civil War; Milo has lost his identity. He remembers nothing that happened before his war injury. Now, fearful and gullible, he traverses the countryside, a figure as lean and dangerous as the bowie knife he carries on his hip. When the two wanderers attend a fundamentalist camp meeting, George joins the screaming sinners who gather at the preacher's feet. The next morning the preacher is found hacked to death and Milo has vanished. George pushes on to a new town and eventually to a new home. But he knows that...
...afraid it's not for us at the moment," says Zanuck smoothly. "We've got a lot of musical things on the schedule right now." After Koster and his entourage leave the office, Zanuck sits lost in thought, silently chewing on a fingernail. "Jesus," he says finally...
Toperoff is now a college teacher. For years, though, horses were his Harvard and his Yale. At the age of thirteen, to help finish school, he took a job mucking the stalls of race horses at a New York track. Soon he was lost in the miracle of watching a chosen horse break loose from the pack and thunder home first across the finish line...