Word: lost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate against George McGovern in South Dakota. The college kid raises $250,000 for the ex-POW and all of a sudden LeBoutillier is a hot prospect for both the Ford and Reagan fund-raising teams--or so he says. But he finds the Republican Party has "lost its soul." What the party and the country needs, he believes, is another Homestead Act--to return Americans to the land and their families; to recapture the spirit of 1862 without having to give 162 acres to each person...
...number of tenant groups have also clashed with the University, pointing to eviction attempts and, in one case, health code violations. One prominent Harvard tenant, the Thomas More Bookshop, recently lost its Holyoke St. store because Harvard rented out the space to a pizzeria. The shop, one of the only ones devoted to scholarly religious works, will move to a spot Harvard provided in Holyoke Center--one its owner says she cannot afford...
...women's volleyball team established itself as a contender for gold or silver in 1980. After defeating the Ukraine volleyballers and upsetting the potent Moscow squad, the American women narrowly lost a grueling, five-game match to the Russian Federation, the Soviet national team. The American women live and practice together six days a week in Colorado Springs, under the auspices of the newly invigorated U.S. Volleyball Association. Mostly in their mid-20s, they have interrupted college, romances and careers to serve and spike. Said Janet Baier, 24, an aspiring cellist from St. Louis: "I can play the cello...
...older than either of them, has had its ups and downs, and now has a new ownership seeking to restore it. Any magazine that has been around a while has genes that are risky to tamper with, according to Editor Clay Felker who in less than two rocky years lost $5 million to $7 million of his own and his British backers' money in trying to turn Esquire around...
...themes sometimes got lost in the variations. During World War II, Esquire concentrated on sports, pinups and adventure fiction; Gingrich, who had left the magazine, had to be invited back to give it intellectual tone again. At this point Hugh Hefner, a circulation promotion writer at Esquire decided to start a magazine of his own, freely borrowing Esquire's formula while gambling that the courts might now be more lenient about nudity. Instead of Esky the bug-eyed lecher as a trademark, Hefner created the Bunny. Facing Playboy's runaway success but unwilling to become a "skin book...