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Word: lost (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reading the Rand study: "It pulls together the inherent contradictions in our relationship, that love-hate. There was a Vietnamese way of doing things and an American way of doing things. And we did neither." One of the Vietnamese officials concluded more tersely: "To sum up, the war was lost from its inception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Recollections of the Fall | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...already garish, mindless popular culture? John Williams has composed his worst and most blatantly derivative score, and among the actors, Brando is inexcusably wasted as Superman's father-saint, and Gene Hackman is embarrassing as the campy villain--is it possible that this once-gripping character actor has lost every drop of style he ever possessed, or was he just miscast in a role that cried out for a polished ham (a Brando, an Olivier, a George C. Scott)? Only Christopher Reeve radiates from within...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '50s Nostalgia and '70s Paranoia | 1/11/1979 | See Source »

Mack's swimming credentials are impeccable. The 6-ft., 4-in., 205-lb. former high school All-American had the misfortune last season of getting lost from the public's eye in the shadow of classmate Bobby Hackett. His value to the team showed through clearly in the Eastern Championships though, where he placed in three individual events and swam on all three of Harvard's second place relays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimming Star Mack is Back | 1/11/1979 | See Source »

...this that Perry felt set the game apart from the one that the Cross lost to St. Peter's after holding a halftime lead. "I tried to control things in the second half and spread out the defense," he said later...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Holy Cross Mauls Hoopsters, 90-73; Defeat Ups Losing Streak to Eleven | 1/10/1979 | See Source »

...goaltending was hot and cold. Lau bobbled Mark Murphy's shot from the point with B.C. on a power play (Jon Garrity, interference) and Gary Sampson smacked the garbage past him. That made it 2-2. Just 43 seconds later, Harvard's Graham Carter lost control of the puck in front of the Crimson goal and Lau was nowhere to be seen when B.C.'s Peter Arnold embroidered the gaping...

Author: By Peter Mcloughlin, | Title: Harvard Hockey Dumps Boston College in OT | 1/10/1979 | See Source »

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