Word: lost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the soldiers who jumped straight overboard when the missiles hit were saved. But hundreds were lost. It was bad. We were lucky. A British frigate found us, and that's why I'm in Gosport, England, Mom. There's a great joke going around here that Britain's been saved by the US Calvary riding in--like those old movies, you know...
...migrant Head Start graduates hold their own academically through the second grade, but then they fall behind, teachers say, unable to master English and buffeted by their turbulent cross-country lives. "Quite honestly, most of the older migrant children are lost when they come here," says Walter Brey, principal of the Palmyra Elementary School, where older migrants attend school while in Wisconsin. But for their younger brothers and sisters, the grounding for education may be the only means of breaking the cycle of wandering and deprivation. Says Migrant Maria Covarabuis, a mother of five: "I want for my children...
...became editor of the prosperous Mansfield News-Journal (circ. 40,000). Since then he has been the target of telephone threats ("You're going to be dead"), a mysterious fire, a five-pound rock through his living room window and $45 million in libel suits. He has lost his job and his life savings, and his wife and four children have left...
Even when things again went badly for capitalism, the left could not capitalize on its opportunities. The anti-Establishment was right about the Viet Nam War; it proved a conflict that could not be won, or lost, with honor. But radical rhetoric kept linking dislike of the war with condemnation of the whole American system. Perspectives were blurred; hard-liners compared the U.S. to Hitler's Germany and listeners turned away. Today, as Jimmy Carter acknowledges the country faces recession, popular distrust of big corporations and the existence of a sizable underclass. And still most Americans can imagine...
DIED. Tony ("Two Ton") Galento, 69, brawling beer-bibing heavyweight who once knocked Joe Louis down but lost the championship fight; of a heart attack; in Livingston, NJ. Cigar in hand, Galento would greet each bout with the boast: "I'll moider da bum." In 15 years as a professional, he "moidered" his opponent 72% of the time before hanging up his gloves in 1944. In a brief fling at acting in the 1950s, Galento appeared with Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront...