Word: lost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting with the P.L.O. had enraged Israel and threatened to derail U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East. American black leaders, on the other hand, were angry at Carter for so readily accepting Young's departure, and they hinted that the President might pay for his action with lost black votes. Several of them also blamed the dismissal on Jewish pressure and warned that it would exacerbate tension between U.S. blacks and Jews...
...months, federal agents questioned the office's 85 employees and combed the building for clues. They determined that much of the missing gold might have been lost during the refining process-some of it undoubtedly went up the chimney in smoke-but they could not rule out the possibility of theft. With 4,100 oz. of gold still missing, the department has now announced that the agents had ended their investigation. Said a spokesman: "The bottom line is that they just could not tell what happened...
...library in 1967, authors are listed by the "name used predominantly" in their works, no matter what their real name may be. Stein has published two novel under the name Harry Patterson, while other U.S. publishing houses have produced at least 17 books by Jack Higgins Thus Stein lost the name game. Moreover, said Tucker, if Stein & Day did not go along with the verdict, the firm could be excluded from the library's cataloguing program. "The bureaucratic mind gone mad," sputtered Publisher Sol Stein in an angry letter of appeal to Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin...
...cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. A third-generation labor organizer, McDonald claimed, "I was born with a union spoon in my mouth." In 1959 he staged one of the costliest strikes in U.S. history-a 116-day walkout. Under fire as a "tuxedo unionist" who had lost touch with the rank and file, he surrendered his post in 1965 to his deputy, I.W. Abel...
...wide, becomes an angry, baiting confessional stashed inside a catchy pop threnody. Flamingo Road is a place where many of Johansen's obsessions - fashion, high romance, lowlife - all meet and rebound off one another until they form dead ends. Flamingo Road is the street where love is lost and where dreams die. It is probably off somewhere on the far side of Swaheto. You will never find it in Miami Beach. - Jay Cocks