Word: lost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...divulge his earnings, he has done well enough to buy a full membership in the Board of Trade for $135,000, which allows him to wheel and deal in all phases of the market. But there have been frightening lurches along the way. "Three tunes I've lost massive amounts of money," admits Cahnman, who is married to a schoolteacher and has no children. "Once I thought I was so far down the tubes that I thought I wouldn't even get out with my house...
...urgent time of shared suffering and purpose. America delivered $11 billion in arms, grain and other supplies to keep the Soviets going. Allied convoys bringing supplies into Murmansk and Archangel through the Barents Sea sometimes lost as many as three-quarters of their ships to German dive bombers. Toward the end of the war, with the Americans rolling into Germany from the West and the Soviets from the East, Winston Churchill remarked: "I deem it highly important that we should shake hands with the Russians as far to the east as possible." The Allies had to settle for the Elbe...
...give me the year in which the Golbetrotters lost their last game? No? Okay, okay, give me the name of the little bald guy who used to sink the long set shots against them...
...Back to college. The 1971 UNC Tarheels finished third in the NCAA tournament when they lost by four points to an unheralded Florida State contingent. North Carolina started Bob McAdoo at center, Dennis Wycick and Bobby Jones at the forwards, and George Karl and WHO at the guards? (Hint: He played one year in the ABA, quite possibly the least talented backcourter ever to make the pros...
February 1972. A varsity athlete at Harvard must face the music. Not a professional, still the Harvard athlete is in the limelight and people and the media will be demanding. So this athlete learned when the hockey team for which he tended goal lost four straight games. I thought it had peaked after a Beanpot loss to B.U. when The Crimson compared my glove hand to that of Marv Throneberry. But the meaning of the term "humbled" was never clearer than on that Saturday afternoon in Ithaca when a lone voice in Cornell's Lynah Rink intoned, "Bertagna...