Word: lost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ironically, McNamara's point was lost on 1,000 protesters, mainly students, who burned him in effigy because they could not forgive his role in shaping Viet Nam War strategy. Their enthusiasm was misplaced; the rioters themselves could hardly have denounced "the mad momentum" of the arms race with more passionate eloquence than McNamara. Said...
Last January Clark embarked on a two-week tour of four countries in order to demonstrate his foreign affairs expertise, but his less-than-sure grasp of issues as well as missed planes and lost luggage led one Montreal newspaper to dub his journey "Around the World in 80 Gaffes...
While the gasoline shortage and the economic slowdown have hurt sales for all the automakers, times have been particularly rough for the weakest of the Big Three, Chrysler Corp. After the company lost an unexpectedly large $53.8 million for the first quarter, Group Vice President Harold Sperlich admitted, "You cannot stand too many quarters like that and keep the company afloat." Some Wall Street analysts expect that 1979 losses will top last year's $204.6 million...
...actually about a young man who goes out in the world to seek his fortune, gets married, has kids, moves to the suburbs, etc., etc. It foundered expensively in Toronto and was mercy-killed in April, just before its scheduled Broadway opening. The experience is instructive, "like being lost in a bog," Baker says. "I saw other musicals last year and sometimes asked myself, 'Didn't the producers and directors know they were awful?' I answered that question: 'No, you don't know.' I still think we folded the makings of a good show...
...whatever subject he wanted. Baker accepted and told Reston. Baker says now that he thinks no one had ever quit the Times before. "They weren't used to it," he adds. So Reston persuaded the publisher, Orvil Dryfoos, to counteroffer him a column at the Times. The Sun lost Baker again, this time for good...