Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Final boost of strength for the coalition was the candidacy of nimble, fast-talking Councilman Charles Shafer, who had been dropped by the Citizens Council, and had quickly switched to the other side. With Shafer leading the coalition bush-beating, the Citizens Association lost five of its eight members on the council, and the city was assured of a new kind of rule. Also assured: the eventual resignation of City Manager L. P. Cookingham, the man who gave Kansas City that clean look...
Following up its conviction of former Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla for abusing power and enriching himself in office (TIME, March 30), the Colombian Senate last week abolished all Rojas' political rights, all his titles and honors. As he signed a document to acknowledge the sentence. Rojas automatically lost his monthly pension as a former President, his rank as lieutenant general, and his proud chest of trinkets, including the Order of Boyacá, the Military Cross, the Order of Admiral Padilla, the Police Star (in the degree of Grand Extraordinary Civic Star), the Cross of Aeronautical Merit, the Order...
...Indian in Salt Lake City or Ogden is lost, friendless" and generally out of a job, according to the report. The same is true of the Mexican-American, and the extent of mistreatment of the Negro in employment, restaurant and hotel service, higher education, housing, "is almost impossible to ascertain...
Died. Johnny Allen, 53, righthanded pitcher who-from 1932 to 1944-threw wild tantrums and controlled smoke balls while playing for five major-league clubs (Yankees, Indians, Browns, Dodgers, Giants), won 142 games, lost only 75, achieved in 1937 a win-loss ratio (15-1) that has not been bettered; of a heart ailment; in St. Petersburg...
Barely missing the Metropolitan Chess League's championship, the "A" team lost to the Cambridge YMCA. Shelby Lyman and Arthur Freeman played first and second boards respectively for the Crimson...