Word: lost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left radicals. In Palermo, an analysis of the June 3 vote showed that the Communists' heaviest losses came in districts with large numbers of young voters. By linking up with the Christian Democrats, concluded Massimo D'Alema, head of the party's youth federation, "we lost credibility for the P.C.I, as the party of freedom. We managed to look at the same time both impotent and Jacobin...
Poor pulchritudinous Elizabeth Ray, 36, the only aspiring actress who was ever non-type-cast. Ray went into show biz after flopping as a non-typist for powerful Ohio Congressman Wayne Hays. Both Ray and Hays lost their jobs following revelations of their great and good friendship. Ray has tried since to make it in the theater. Last week she opened at Manhattan's Riverboat in a nightclub act that was, just possibly, worse than her typing...
...recession, they have been losing deposits in a big way. April, for instance, is normally a poor month for the savings banks, since their customers commonly make large withdrawals to pay taxes. But April 1979 was by far the cruelest ever: nationwide, savings and loan institutions lost $1.5 billion in deposits (vs. an increase of $400 million last year). They gained back $1.2 billion in May, but that was considerably below last year's more normal $2.1 billion in new deposits...
First meetings between adopted brothers and sisters can have an erotic aspect, with prolonged hugging, kissing and nervous jokes about sleeping together. Indeed, says Betty Jean Lifton, an adoptee and the author of Lost and Found...
...Adoption Experience, a "touch of incest" often hangs in the air. Most adoptees resist the impulse toward sex. Victoria Pittorino, 24, of Arlington, Mass., and her long lost brother David Goddu, 22, of Holyoke, Mass., did not. Separated since infancy, they found each other last Easter, married a few weeks later and now face a criminal charge of incest...