Word: lost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...simpler and could be learned. He felt it could be adapted on and on into the centuries, until architecture bloomed into the great science he thought it should be, and all our cities would look like a series of Mies buildings-a poor man's Chicago. He lost. But he didn't know...
Both are referring, with unconcealed dread and awe, to the lawyer's equivalent of the Serbonian bog in Milton's Paradise Lost, "where armies whole have sunk." Most lawyers call it simply the "Big Case": the massive, sprawling suit that involves huge stakes, provides employment for legions of attorneys and drones on for years. The quintessential Big Case is U.S. vs. International Business Machines Corp., an antitrust suit by the Government charging the company with monopolizing the computer industry. Before the parties went to trial, they deluged each other with 30 million pages of documents. The actual trial...
...with its blend of news, dramatic re-enactments of events and controversial social comment, punctuated by a dynamic voice announcing "Time marches on!" After leaving March of Time in 1943 (eight years before its demise), de Rochemont produced semidocumentary feature films, including The House on 92nd Street (1945) and Lost Boundaries...
With the young Tiger squad looking distraught, Princeton called time out; and when play resumed, both the crowd and the Harvard team had lost the spirit...
...Tony Price, a former schoolboy sensation at Taft, took control with his 20-ft. pop shots, en route to a 23-pt. night. The Quakers quickly ran off 12 unanswered points. As Penn got stronger, finding its shooting range, Harvard fell to pieces. The usually dependable Fine and Taylor lost their backcourt composure, committing 13 of Harvard's outrageous 30 turnovers...