Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manuel Cabral and Mike Woolf each won three and lost seven sabre contests on Saturday, while Jon Piel won two and lost eight. On Friday the varsity compiled 13-17 and 12-18 records in epee and foil respectively...
Stock-market shares had fallen 4 to 10 points on the news that the architect of Germany's economic miracle, and his party's most effective campaigner after Adenauer, might be lost in a largely honorific five-year job. Of the 271 Christian Democrats in Parliament, more than 120 signed petitions urging Erhard to stay at the Economics Ministry, and 46 of the dissenters warned that they would vote against Erhard at the July 1 secret ballot, ensuring his defeat for President...
...produced a major casualty. Portly, white-haired Joseph Bech, 72-a Christian Socialist who has been Foreign Minister for the past 33 years and a familiar florid figure at nearly every international conference since League of Nations days, in the company of the famed from Lloyd George to Macmillan-lost his job. The new Foreign Minister: Eugene Schaus...
...began mass arrests, and banned the African National Congress, which he conceded was the most popular political movement in a land where there are 3,000,000 blacks and only 8,000 whites. These fateful steps were taken after a week of jitteriness (TIME, March 9) in which men lost their lives-but not one of them was white...
...London, angry Laborites tried to censure the Macmillan government for allowing a British protectorate to manhandle one of their own. Never before had such a thing happened to a British M.P. After a white-lipped debate, Labor lost, 237 to 293, partly because the Speaker ruled that an M.P. does not carry parliamentary privilege about with him, as a Foreign Office man does his diplomatic immunity. But if Stonehouse himself was not particularly popular on either side of the House, the temper of the mother of parliaments showed during the debate that it was very worried about the direction...