Word: lost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Crews' father left the swamp to go home to Bacon County, Georgia, he took a little money and a gold watch, inscribed "To Ray Crew, Pioneer Builder of the Tamiami Trail." He left behind a testicle, lost to the raging case of gonorrhea he contracted during their brief and unsatisfactory coupling...
...need perhaps to justify the elaborate and useless expense-the theory that conspicuous consumption provides employment and entertainment for the masses having lost popularity some time ago--the sponsors frequently donate any profits to charity. Otherwise, the traditional trappings remain intact. Technically, a girl is "invited" to join that year's debutante "class." She must be clad completely in virginal white, and wear long white gloves. The club will supply her with a bouquet of roses and either she or her sponsors will provide at least two male escorts, dressed in tails, so she can dance away every minute...
Brewer said the building's owner would have converted it into condominiums, thereby taking it off the rental market even had Harvard not leased it. "The effect of the lease is to maintain rental property in a building that would have been lost," Brewer said...
...Right-to-Life as the number-one public official it hopes to defeat in 1980. "Right-to-Life doesn't need to get 55 per cent of the vote to win," Packwood said. "In a swing district, if you lose just 4 or 5 per cent, you've lost the election," he added...
...women's swimming team lost a close meet yesterday at Blodgett Pool, going down to Boston College 74-57, despite strong performances by freshmen Pam Stone. Adele Joel and Emily Feldman...